Property and Planning Report: Harbour side, Bristol

Property and Planning Report:
Harbour side, Bristol
Abstract: Bristol has considerable experience of public-private partnership working. The
development of Harbour side involves a ‘direct’, albeit complex, relationship between the city
council (and other interested partners – e.g. key landowners) with private developers. In addition,
it provides an example of a situation where the developer, after receiving a significant level of
public opposition to the scheme decided to take an alternative approach to the consultation
process. The Gloucester case provides an example of the use of an Urban Regeneration
Company (URC) to oversee the development while Taunton, a council with relatively little
experience of public-private partnership working, represents a more ‘traditional’ public private
partnership in which the local authority worked directly with private partners. The latter two
cases demonstrate alternative means undertaken by local authorities in ensuring development of
previously used land is undertaken to provide new facilities. The research will therefore seek to
add to provide an understanding of the various approaches to redeveloping brownfield sites that
currently exist in the UK.
Introduction
Harbour side, Bristol
Bristol is the eighth largest town in the UK and as such is a key driver of economic improvement
in the South West location in addition to having a ‘global footprint’, albeit in a small wide
variety of sectors. The town has a protracted maritime history, with the dock gambling a large
function within the discovery of the Americas, and the more nefarious trades of slavery, tobacco
and alcohol. due to the decline of the docks the city had and nonetheless has vast improvement
capability based round valuable area brownfield websites which have remained undeveloped for
numerous a long time (Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and
Local Government Committee, 2012). The nearby authority also has full-size revel in of

partnership working with the personal region for the reason that Nineties. All of this offers
ability to investigate the problems PARCOUR specializes in. this kind of web sites is the focus
of a case observe for the PARCOUR assignment: Bristol Harbourside. Bristol Harbourside is a
7ha blended-use improvement in vital Bristol, to the west of the city centre in a place recognized
regionally as Canon’s Marsh. The website’s 2001 masterplan protected 664 dwellings, up to
34,500m2 of office area and a 21,000m2 enjoyment development (Josh Ryan-Collins, 2017).
The redevelopment became led with the aid of developers Crest Nicholson, with the masterplan
completed with the aid of Edward Cullinan Architects and was added over the 14 years, among
2001 and 2015. This place of metropolis docks turned into first of all evolved within the 19th and
early 20th century and blanketed warehouses (known as bonds) for the tobacco enterprise, as
well as other dockside activities (Lund, 2019). The docks closed inside the Sixties leaving areas
of the land infected via preceding commercial use, maximum considerably the land owned via
British fuel. several schemes were proposed to redevelop the land between the late Nineteen
Sixties to the overdue 1990s, along with the usage of the website online as part of a ring street
inside the Nineteen Seventies (Douglas Scarrett, 2018). the use of the web page as a mixed-
use improvement changed into recognized by Bristol metropolis Council as a long way returned
as 1983 (metropolis of Bristol, 1983). Canon’s Marsh has visible 4 awesome stages of
regeneration. the first worried the conversion of the previous transit sheds into the Watershed
media centre in 1982. the second occurred inside the past due Eighties, whilst the present
Tobacco Bonds have been destroyed and Lloyds financial institution relocated their headquarters
to the web site. The 0.33 phase became the end result of an aggregate of developer and
‘Millennium’ funding that was used.
Initiation
Improvement is initiated when both a parcel of land or web page in Bristol is taken into
consideration suitable for a distinctive or greater extensive use, or if demand for a particular use
ends in a look for an appropriate website online. For the functions of this paper, we are able to
cognizance attention on the principle makes use of consisting of shops (or retail), workplaces and
business (Barrie Needham, 2016). Word a few of the equal ideas additionally observe to
residential traits consisting of low or medium excessive-density housing in the shape of an

excessive-upward thrust building (David Adams, 2008). Frequently office and commercial
make use of are combined: homes appropriate for such makes use of are frequently defined as
enterprise area.
The initiative may additionally come from any of the actors or stakeholders inside the
development method looking for the proper website online in anticipation of the call for or need
for any of the above makes use of. rather, the initiative might also stem from stakeholders
looking ahead to a probably better fee use for a current site because of converting demographic,
monetary, social, physical or different circumstances. In this example, with a view to discovering
the most suitable use, the initiator will search for to investigate the market and the capability to
achieve the vital statutory planning consent for the change of use.
The roles of the various distinctive stakeholders in starting up the system are tested below ‘most
important actors’ later in this bankruptcy. The initiator may not always be involved in the rest of
the development procedure, relying on their cause or objective (Spencer, 2013).
Evaluation
One of the maximum essential ranges of the improvement manner is evaluated because it affects
the selection making of the developer throughout. the evaluation consists of market studies, each
in fashionable and unique terms, and the financial appraisal of the proposal. The methods of
assessing the monetary viability of an undertaking is properly mounted. Traditionally, lots much
less interest become given to unique market research; but, with the utility of the internet, this has
progressed (Sims, 2011). The method of financial assessment needs to ensure that the price of
the development is affordable and viable. For private quarter traits, the assessment establishes
the capability for earnings with regards to the dangers incurred. For the general public quarter
and non-profitmaking businesses, it will try and make certain that the charges are recovered
(Committee, 2013).
A further objective of the financial appraisal is to set up the fee of the website. This stage of the
technique ought to be undertaken previous to any commitment and whilst the developer keeps
flexibility. Though the assessment involves the combined recommendation of the developer’s
expert group, the selection to continue and bear the threat rests in the long run with the