Hybrid application contains two offfice blocks, four residential towers, a flexible commercial building and a hotel
Bristol council has approved plans by Zaha Hadid Architects for a £350m mixed-use scheme on a long-vacant part of the Temple Quarter site.
The hybrid application, designed for Legal & General, includes two office buildings, a hotel building, a flexible commercial building and four residential blocks containing up to 520 homes.
One of the office blocks is contained within the application’s detailed component, with the rest of the scheme approved in outline only and to be refined later under separate reserved matters applications.
The council said the scheme, located on a 2.7ha site close to Bristol’s Temple Meads railway station which has been dormant for several decades, represents a major milestone in the regeneration of the wider Temple Quarter area.
The scheme’s first-phase office block will be 62m in height and contain around 14,500sq m of floorspace along with ground floor drinking establishments. It will be built using precast concrete panels with aluminium frames.
The second office building would be a maximum of 54m in height, or around eight storeys, under its outline approval, while the four residential blocks are the tallest in the scheme with expected heights ranging from 15 and 19 storeys.
The hotel would be up to 15 storeys tall, containing 163 rooms, and the four-storey flexible commercial block is envisaged as a space for indoor sport and recreation or offices, with drink and food establishments on its ground floor.
The development also contains some 12,000sq m of open space, including a large square surrounding the two office blocks and the hotel.
Legal & General expects to build out the scheme over multiple phases over the next decade with the final buildings set to complete by April 2036.
The project team includes Avison Young on planning and Buro Happold on transport.
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