Bristol Central Area Action Plan

We have recently completed consultation on a major new plan for development in central Bristol. The Central Area Action Plan Options Consultation looks at what various sites in the city centre could be used for and sets out draft policies that could be used to decide planning applications in the city centre in the future.

We have also recently completed consultation on the City Centre Public Realm and Movement Framework. The Public Realm and Movement Framework looks at how people will move around the city centre in the future and what could be done to improve its streets and public spaces.

Consultation on both documents has now closed. The feedback we received will help to shape both documents as we progress them to their next stage of development.

Consultation documents

• Bristol Central Area Action Plan Options Consultation (pdf, 11.8 MB)
• Public Realm and Movement Framework Consultation (pdf, 14.6 MB)

Also available:

• Sustainability Appraisal – Main Report (pdf, 4.3 MB)
• Sustainability Appraisal – Appendices (pdf, 0.7 MB)

Reports from previous consultations

• "Ideas for Bristol" consultation report (December 2010) (pdf, 1.2 MB)
• Second stakeholder event report (15 July 2010) (pdf, 1.4 MB) about ideas for the central area
• Second stakeholder event report appendix (pdf, 9.2 MB)
• "Cherish and Change" consultation summary
  (pdf, 1.4 MB)
• Stakeholder event report (25 March 2010) (pdf, 2.3 MB) about challenges facing the central area
• Call for sites documentation (December 2008)
• Call for sites was an opportunity to suggest land and/or buildings within Bristol for development or change to alternative uses.
• Community involvement programme (pdf, 130 KB) for the Bristol Central Area Action Plan.

Community led plans

• Old Market Community Planning Workshop Report (pdf, 6.9 MB) (October 2011)
• Hotwells and Cliftonwood Community Traffic Strategy (pdf, 3.7 MB) (HCCA / CHASE) (2010)

Supplementary planning and other documents

Prior to commencing work on the plan, we worked with stakeholders to produce a number of supplementary planning and other documents affecting development in the central area:

• SPD1: Tall Buildings (pdf, 12.0 MB) (January 2005)
• SPD3: Future of Redcliffe (pdf, 8.4 MB) (July 2006)
• SPD8: Nelson Street Regeneration Framework (pdf, 3.2 MB) (March 2006)
• SPD10: Planning a Sustainable Future for St. Paul's (pdf, 2.7 MB) (December 2006)
• SPD11: University of Bristol Strategic Masterplan (pdf, 9.7 MB) (July 2006)
• City Centre Strategy - Section 1 (pdf, 3.8 MB) and Section 2  (pdf, 6.7 MB)

The supplementary planning documents will help decide what should be in the Action Plan as it is completed.

Key parts of the City Centre Strategy that have yet to be implemented will be included in the Area Action Plan.