TRESA has set up a petition to highlight the threat to iconic views of the Totterdown escarpment from current proposals to build tall blocks of flats along Mead Street (the current light industrial area below Richmond Road and Bellevue Terrace). The link to the petition is here:
The petition states: We the undersigned ask the Mayor and council of Bristol to ensure that views of the Totterdown escarpment, an iconic feature of our cityscape, are protected from development proposals that wholly or partially obscure the panorama of colourful houses on the hilltop.
3,500 signatures are needed (from people with a BS postcode) to trigger a debate at full council.
Background information:
Views of the Totterdown escarpment regularly appear in local and national publications as an iconic feature of our city. The Heritage Assessment of the Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone includes the Totterdown escarpment as one of the principal iconic landmarks in the vicinity of Temple Quarter. Bristol’s City Design Team describe the Totterdown escarpment as “an iconic cityscape feature” that requires careful thought for the whole of the Framework area.
However, views of the escarpment are threatened by inappropriate proposals for tower blocks (from 6+ground to 21+ground) in the proposed redevelopment of the Mead Street. We are not against creating a new mixed-use neighbourhood along Mead Street, but this must be at heights that do not obscure the panorama of the Totterdown escarpment.
The first of the planning applications is for the old Bart Spices site, where an 11-storey building is proposed. The Totterdown escarpment is approximately 6-storeys, and TRESA would support a dense, mixed-use development no higher than 6-storeys, to create a new ‘neighbourhood’ along Mead Street that complements, rather than destroys, the cityscape. TRESA urges local residents, and people from across the city, to comment on the application, and to object to the height of the proposed development. Details are here:
Mixed-use redevelopment including 244 residential (C3) units and 655 sq.m. of commercial floorspace (Class E) on ground floor, together with a new vehicular access off Mead Street, cycle and car parking provision, private amenity space, servicing arrangements, landscaping, public realm, and associated works. 
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