Scheme to be key enabling project on wider 10,000-home masterplan
Bristol council has granted planning consent to a transport hub set to become a key enabling project on the 10,000-home Bristol Temple Quarter masterplan.
The AHR-designed Southern Gateway scheme includes a 379-space multi-storey car park, a 530-space cycle storage building and new bus stops next to Bristol Temple Meads station.
The project will replace a surface car park, freeing up space for new homes and office developments on the wider Prior + Partners-designed masterplan for Bristol Temple Quarter.
Bristol Temple Quarter Limited Liability Partnership (BTQ LLP), the body responsible for delivering the masterplan, announced a search for a contractor for the Southern Gateway project last month and will announce a winner in January.
Construction on the scheme, which also includes improvements to walking and cycling routes, is expected to start on site in mid-2026. The work is being funded by a £95m government grant awarded to deliver new entrances and infrastructure around the station.
BTQ LLP chief executive Karen Mercer said the scheme is the “first piece in the jigsaw to unlock the new homes, jobs and public spaces that the city needs”.
Bristol city council leader Tony Dyer added: “The Southern Gateway is more than just a transport hub for the station. It is essential to the transformation of Bristol Temple Meads station and the area around it, which has not been meeting the needs of our city for some time.”
Arup is acting as project manager, lead consultant, structural and civil engineer, transport engineer, fire consultant and energy consultant.
AHR is lead architect, urban designer and landscape architect, with the project team also including Mott Macdonald on ground investigation and archeology and Alan Baxter on heritage.
BTQ LLP is also working with Network Rail on plans to transform an existing railway track into a walkway over the River Avon which will serve as a new entrance to the railway station and the Southern Gateway site.
The wider 135ha masterplan is set to be one of the UK’s largest regeneration projects. BTQ LLP was formed in March last year from a partnership between Bristol city council, Homes England and the West of England Combined Authority, with firms working on the project including AHMM, Arup, Spacehub, Nudge Studio and Alan Baxter.
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