The hospital authorities have just informed us of this new proposal for a joint development with the University. Drawings will be on display in the foyer of St Michael’s Hospital from Monday 29th September. Please have a look at them and tell us what you think - good or bad - so that we can draw up a response.
Helicopter Landing Pad Planning Application
Open Meeting, The Ark, Kingsdown
Tuesday 7th October, 7pm
The new University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has submitted a Planning Application (no. 08/03522/F): “Provision of air ambulance landing facility to roof of Queen’s Building, together with associated works to include an extended escape stair and lift shaft.” You can read it on the City Council’s website at tinyurl.com/helipad or at the Planning Department at Brunel House.
The Kingsdown Conservation Group Committee thought that it would be helpful to organise an Open Meeting for local residents. Officers from the Trust have accepted an invitation to explain and discuss the proposals. They hope also to bring along one or two specialist colleagues with knowledge of the clinical issues and the noise survey.
If you already have specific questions that you would like addressed, please send them, by Friday 3rd Oct if possible, to info@kingsdown.org.uk (or put them through the door of 1, Somerset House, Kingsdown Parade - just before Marlborough Hill). This will help us to plan the meeting and ensure that the Trust is able to provide appropriate information, but you can, of course, also raise anything relevant on the evening itself.
We will notify one or two other local residents’ groups that we are in contact with, but if you know of people who should be informed, then do please tell them. Thanks.
A planning application has been submitted for a helicopter landing pad on the roof of the BRI. Although we were notified of the intention back in March, we thought we would have a chance to discuss the details before the application was submitted, but that did not happen.
We have recently had a meeting with the hospital, and have looked on the Bristol City website at some of the 18 documents that make up the application - no 08/03522/F - we feel that residents need an opportunity to discuss the plans, and we have therefore asked that the decision be delayed beyond the current deadline of 9th October to allow more opportunity for comment.
We hope to arrange a public meeting in the near future. Watch this space and our noticeboards for more details. In the meantime, please have a look at the application either online or at the City Planning Dept. in Brunel House:
This time we’ve listed the pending planning applications to give members more detail about the things we discuss and act on. For further details, please contact one of the committtee members (listed on the website).
Planning Applications. We reviewed progress on the following applications:
4-10 Stokes Croft – Blue Lagoon – application to build shared student accommodation on five floors – refused – applicant has appealed. KCG objected to the loss of employment space and to the design of the proposed new building.
King Charles – King Square Avenue – application to demolish (part) and rebuild as café and flats – still pending. KCG objected to the demolition of the pub, which the Stokes Croft Conservation Area Appraisal called a building of merit.
77/79 Stokes Croft – DHS Heating – change of use of upper floors to residential use approved – design details changed before approval. Most of KCG’s objections met.
22 Fremantle Square – application to destroy the Ninetree Hill boundary wall to create parking in garden – refused on conservation grounds. Application to build single house in Dove Street refused on design grounds (in line with KCG’s objections).
76 Kingsdown Parade –application now approved after assistance from the conservation officer.
Somerset House Alfred Hill – still pending.
University – phase 1 – a different architect has had a meeting with the planning officer, and the proposals sound more promising. The Maths building will be lower and the St. Michael’s Hill façade of the Bio building is broken into smaller units, which are more domestic in scale.
Westmoreland House Stokes Croft. There is no good news. The City must assist the owners, Comer Homes, who have submitted a planning application, to produce an acceptable development. A compulsory purchase cannot proceed until (i) Comer Homes can be shown to have no intention to produce an acceptable planning application, and (ii) the City has an agreement with a preferred developer (in this case, Crosby Homes). The development agreement is to ensure the repayment of public funds. It is probable that neither Comer Homes nor Crosby Homes would build out the development without a change in the housing market.
We also disccussed:
UBHT plans for a helicopter pad; the Council’s new “Approach to Planning Enforcement”; illegal (and legal) destruction of walls to create parking spaces; Residents’ Parking (the Council should soon be making a decision in principle, in October. If the RPS proceeds the Council will then hold local consultations. St Michael’s Conservation Area; the high costs of proposed lamppost replacements, a tree to replace the felled one in the Clevedon Terrace triangular garden, bright lights in the new Cabot Circus development.
Next Meeting of the committee – is on Tuesday the 14th October. Please email the secretary at secretary@kingsdown.org.uk about any matter of concern on the subject of Kingsdown.
The Green Man (formerly the Bell)Note: You can download a more colourful version of this informaion if you right-click or CTRL-click here:kh-08-flier-2.pdf
Evening Party
7.30 - 11pm St Matthews Church Hall
Music, Dancing and Food
With Ceilidh band ‘Jiggerty’ 9pm
Adults £6 Child £4
Tickets available from the St Matthews Church Office tel.9441598 or from Alfred Harris 1-3 Kingsdown Parade
Donations for Stalls
Books Have you any interesting books you wish to pass on? Gardening books; too often read children’s books or a jolly good novel - go on clear a shelf or two!! Leave in shed at No.73 KP the week before.
Plants & Flowers We need your surplus plants and bunches of garden flowers. Please leave at the bottom of the garden of No.69 KP in a pot or bag with its name
Bric a brac ( Definitely not Junk!) Could worthy donations please be brought to the Kingsdown Surplus Stall on the day or for your own stall contact Helen tel. 9422922
Help on the Day Setting out or running a stall. tel Helen 9422922
MUSIC Would local musicians who would like to play on the day please
tel. Ruth 9247098
Fancy Dress Paraders
And the Fancy Hatters, meet at the end of St. Matthew’s Road at 1.30 for the start of the Parade.
This year’s charity is
Friends of Alalay (Santa Cruz)
Come and write messages and make pictures to send to these street children of Bolivia
Exhibits for the Cookery, Gardening and Crafts Competitions need to be handed in to the Church Hall by 12.30.
Judging starts at 1pm