Bristol Civic Society

• News / Development

  Plans approved to knock down Galleries shopping centre

  The shopping centre in Broadmead opened in 1991 but has struggled for many years

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• News / planning

  Proposed redevelopment slammed as ‘visually incongruous’

  A "complex" planning application seeks to redevelop parts of a set of three buildings

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• News / planning

  Civic Society says Bristol needs ‘planning reset’

  "We need an honest, open, debate about what sort of city we want"

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• News / Bristol Civic Society

  Legal action begins in attempt to stop 28-storey tower

  Bristol Civic Society says that planning permission was granted on "shaky grounds"

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• News / planning

  Fears 28-storey towers will ‘change face of Bristol’

  Bristol Civic Society warn the plans will “undermine city’s character for the worse”

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• News / Development

  ‘We don’t have to accept this dominating and depressing development’

  Bristol Civic Society fiercely objects to proposals for a new 28-storey tower

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• News / Bearpit

  Civic Society objects to 28-storey tower ‘in the strongest terms’

  Plans see Premier Inn demolished to make way for “co-living” flats and student accommodation

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• Features / things you probably didn't know

  The story of a hidden 18th century swimming pool in Montpelier

  Brummie threadmaker Thomas Rennison set up the grand pleasure baths in 1765

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