Improving Denmark Street area consultation 2025
Overview
Denmark Street and the surrounding area is just west of The Centre in Bristol. It is home to several cultural venues, including Bristol Hippodrome, O2 Academy and Bristol Beacon, as well as restaurants, bars, cafes, shops, offices and homes.
We want your views on new proposals to manage traffic and improve the public space around Denmark Street, Denmark Avenue, Frogmore Street and Trenchard Street.
The proposals would improve road safety and make the area more accessible for the large numbers of people visiting entertainment venues in the area. This would help to support Bristol’s nighttime economy.
Denmark Street: view to south-east towards St Augustine's Parade
Proposals
Bristol City Council is proposing the following changes:
- Options to close part of Denmark Street to motor vehicles either full-time or part-time. We ask you about your preference in the survey
- Closing Denmark Avenue to motor vehicles full-time
- Raised crossing points at the same level as the pavement to help pedestrians cross roads at two locations:
- Denmark Street at the junction with St Augustine’s Parade (The Centre)
- Culver Street at the junction with Frogmore Street
- Tactile paving and dropped kerbs at junctions throughout the area to help people cross roads
- Speed cushions on Frogmore Street and Trenchard Street
- Improving public space with a new tree, planters, seating, cycle parking and e-scooter parking
A new zebra crossing is planned on Trenchard Street near Bristol Beacon. This would be built as part of a different project, so we don’t ask you about the zebra crossing in this consultation.
Overview of proposals
Funding
This project is being funded by the UK government as part of the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement, secured by the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority.
Tell us what you think
This consultation is open from 22 August 2025 and will close at midnight on 9 October 2025.
Please complete and return this survey by Thursday 9 October 2025 to make sure your views are considered.
Alternative formats
If you need this survey in a different format:
- email: transport.engagement@bristol.gov.uk
- phone: 0117 903 6449 and leave a message
- write to: Denmark Street, Transport Engagement, PO BOX 3399, 100 Temple Street, Bristol BS1 9NE
A different format could be:
- a paper version
- Easy Read
- large print
- braille
- British Sign Language
- a different language
What happens next
We will analyse all the responses to this consultation. Your feedback will help us to develop our proposals for Denmark Street, Denmark Avenue, Frogmore Street and Trenchard Street.
Bristol City Council’s Transport and Connectivity Committee will decide whether to take the scheme forward. The committee will consider the consultation responses when making its decision. If approved, we would then send a full business case to the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority to request the funding needed to build the scheme.
If the scheme is taken forward, some of the measures, including any changes to traffic movement and car parking, will require statutory consultation on the Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO). This will happen before a final decision on the proposals is made by the Executive Director Growth and Regeneration on behalf of the council’s Transport and Connectivity Committee. The responses to the TRO statutory consultation will be considered when making a final decision.
If the decision is made to build the scheme, we anticipate the project would be completed by the end of 2027.
Key dates
- Start date: 22 August 2025
- End date: 9 October 2025