Heritage group says proposal will wreck views of city centre
Historic England has written to Bristol city council formally objecting to a seven-storey office block by AHMM being planned for a well-known harbourside site in the city.
The heritage advisor said if the development at historic Floating Harbour went ahead it will “harm the setting of the grade I listed Bristol Cathedral” and block important views of the city centre.
The AHMM team was appointed at the beginning of last year after the city council held an open competition for the site which is being masterminded by developer Bell Hammer and funder, the Railways Pension Scheme.
但英国西南部历史博物馆的代理区域主任罗斯·西蒙兹表示，他们对AHMM的计划并不满意:“我们担心这个计划会影响市中心的特色和人们对这一历史区域的欣赏。
“这将对从浮港到大教堂和城市景观产生不利影响。”
他补充说，英格兰历史博物馆并不反对开发，但他说:“这个计划不足以证明它将对城市码头保护区造成的破坏是合理的。”
The pension fund applied for full planning permission for a mixed-use development of offices, food and alcohol outlets at the site, which is largely undeveloped. The harbour was created in 1823 and overlooks the meeting point of the river Frome and the Avon.
Simon Hickman, development advice team leader at Historic England, said: “We recognise the potential of the Waterfront site. The right scheme in this location could make a positive contribution to Bristol, but any proposal for this site must equal in quality the outstanding surrounding cityscape.”
The news comes after Historic England objected to proposals for St Mary le Port in the centre of Bristol, the site of a ruined parish church, saying the scale and massing of the proposed replacement buildings “would not respond to the historic character of Bristol’s Old City”.
其他参与该计划的人员包括项目经理Gardiner & Theobald和成本顾问Currie & Brown。机电工程师是Hoare Lea，结构和土木工程师是AKS Ward。
The council is expected to make a decision on the application by 14 January next year.
AHMM and Bell Hammer are working together on another site in Bristol called Assembly, a mixed-use scheme in the middle of the city which is also being developed by Axa Real Estate.
The £50m Building A was completed by Galliford Try earlier this year and has been let to telecoms firm BT with the firm beginning work on Buildings B and C over the summer.
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