What’s changed?

The scale and layout of the development has been remodelled to provide a perimeter block
This has enabled the buildings to gradually climb in height away from the Bedminster Conservation Area adjacent to East Street – starting at three storeys in the smaller block to the north and stepping up towards Malago Road in the larger block to the south.
Most of the homes fronting onto Stafford Street and Little Paradise will be in four storey buildings to take account of existing local heights at street level.
The bookends of the main block have reduced in height compared to the middle blocks in the original scheme – the reduction is from 8-9 storeys to 5-8 storeys

As previously, rather than a single taller building on Malago Road, this is broken into four parts with different heights: nine, 13, 14 and 16 storeys to significantly reduces the scale and massing
Additionally, the architectural treatment of the tall building element has been designed to break up the building mass and height impact.

The changes to the layout and design have reduced the number of homes from 329 to 316 (13 fewer homes), while also now including 21 affordable homes.
Of the 316 homes, 21 new affordable homes are included and will be located in a bespoke building falling, in part on our land and on the small Council-owned car park at the northern end of the site (called Little Paradise North car park).
We are purchasing Little Paradise North car park from Bristol City Council. We will be paying a land receipt to Bristol City Council for this car park and we will be making a contribution towards the construction of the new decked car park on Plot 4b.

The revised scheme layout now accommodates improved pedestrian and cycle routes to create a safe and attractive link from Windmill Hill to East Street.
Stafford Street would become one way to vehicles exiting onto Malago Road and be a predominantly cycle and pedestrian route.
To accommodate the new MetroBus stop on Malago Road, Leicester Street will be extended through our site, creating a loop road to allow service vehicles – like deliveries and waste collection – to safely reach existing and new buildings. The key pedestrian and cycle route (Malago Greenway) will take people over a new crossing on Malago Road, down a widened and greatly enhanced pavement with a clearly marked cycle route along Stafford Street, continuing on to a newly extended Leicester Street before joining Little Paradise through to East Street.

The improved pedestrian and cycle routes will be extensively landscaped and, specifically on Little Paradise, will create a transition from public realm in to private external space
There will be active street frontages to help promote a safe environment.
High quality communal private realm for use of the residents of the scheme are now enclosed within courtyard settings and roof gardens.
The majority of apartments have their own private external balcony space.

A reduction in car parking spaces from 84 to 71 spaces, of which 17 are disabled spaces and 15 electric vehicle charging points.
An increase in the number of secure bike storage spaces from 358 to 419 plus an additional 32 visitor spaces.
Accommodating Bristol City Council’s request for major changes to our original proposals to allow for a new MetroBus stop in front of our site on Malago Road.