Revised proposals for the final phases of the regeneration of Wapping Wharf, designed to build on the success of Bristol’s popular dockside neighbourhood, have been submitted to Bristol City Council.
If approved, the plans for Wapping Wharf North will secure the future of the CARGO independent businesses and create a go-to leisure destination on the city docks. They will also provide sustainable new homes, shops, restaurants, takeaways and workspaces, together with generous landscaped public spaces, and more natural habitat for wildlife to improve biodiversity.
The proposals, by developer and owner Umberslade, have been significantly revised following consultation. Changes include removing the double-storey rooftop restaurant on the tallest building and one storey on another block and redesigning CARGO and the market hall to make them more like the existing shipping container development.
The development at Wapping Wharf North will include a permanent and much-improved new home for the businesses in CARGO with small independent businesses selling groceries and produce in a continental-style covered market called CARGO Hall, surrounded with takeaways and casual dining businesses with outdoor seating. Upper floors will have dine-in restaurants with green outdoor terraces offering views across the harbour with a viewing platform and shipping container restaurant on the sixth floor.
Wapping Wharf North will be developed in two phases. A full planning application has been submitted for Phase 1 to the west (Blocks 1, 2 and 3) which will include the permanent home for CARGO and around half of the new homes; and an outline application for Phase 2 (Blocks 4 and 5) to the east which includes the flexible workspace and remaining new homes.
Stuart Hatton, managing director of Umberslade, said: “Our ambition with Wapping Wharf North is to take the development of the neighbourhood we’ve created here to a whole new level and create a place where people can live, work, shop, exercise and socialise. At the same time, we want to build on the harbourside’s reputation as a leisure destination by creating something fresh and exciting that will draw people to the area, with more green public spaces for them to enjoy when they get here.”
