Another attempt to end Crest Nicholson’s involvement with Bristol’s Harbourside site has ended in failure. Last night Bristol’s Labour-led council voted by just two votes to reject a Liberal Democrat/Tory motion overturning its decision to extend Crest’s development agreement.
The motion called on the council to refuse to grant an extension until “a revised master plan has been subject to public consultation and approved by the full city council.”
At the end of February, the council’s finance and property sub-committee voted by five votes to four to grant a six-month extension to the developer’s exclusive rights on regeneration of the city’s former docks. The 7.7ha (19 acre) site is largely owned by the council.
The extension was granted on the basis that Crest would drop its threat to lodge an appeal against the planning committee’s decision in January to ignore – for the second time in under a year – planning officers’ advice and vote against Crest’s second proposal for the site. Crest threatened to appeal, claiming that it had resolved all 10 complaints against its first proposals and had faithfully followed the design brief.
EGi News 22/03/00
