Plans for hundreds of new apartments in St Pauls are set for approval this week near the M32 motorway. Developers are hoping to get planning permission to build 358 flats on an empty vacant plot around Dove Lane.
Places for People, the developers, would build the apartments on the site of an old paper factory, which was demolished several years ago. Bristol City Council’s development control B committee has been recommended to grant permission at a meeting on Wednesday, October 26.
Only one in five apartments would be classed as affordable. This includes 54 social rented flats and 18 ‘first homes’, which are discounted to first-time buyers. The flats could be connected to the city’s district heat network, and solar panels would be installed on the roofs.
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The 1.6-hectare site was formerly home to the English Corrugated Paper Factory, and lies next to Cabot Primary School and St Pauls Community Sports Centre on the east and a petrol station and St Paul’s Park to the west.
In planning documents, architects working on the scheme said: “This site presents a hugely exciting opportunity to create a new sustainable residential community, and reconnect two districts of St Pauls. The proposal aims to reconnect existing streets to provide better connections through the area and improve links between St Pauls and the city centre.”
Most of the flats would either have one or two bedrooms, with 31 apartments having three bedrooms. All 18 of the ‘first homes’ would have just one bedroom. The scheme would include 55 parking spaces, including 11 with electric vehicle chargers. There would also be space for 584 bicycles.
