Bristol Site

I think the proposed site would best suit the former, but it would be a bold move for the Club to take. If it preserves a facility within the city, it’s much better than nothing. However, fully automated sites can be problematic if the technology has a bad day and they seem to turn some folks brains to mush.

I think the concept good. If used as Baltic Wharf, the site itself is not the destination, just somewhere to park your caravan or Motorhome to visit the town and surrounding area. 

Its position whilst convient for the city is clearly not as good as BW. Where you can just go through the gate and sit on the harbour side with a pint. Buses do run reasonably frequently along Clanage road and go to the centre and bus station. For access to Ashton Court it is much better. My main reservation would be walking back to the site in the darker months. We often did this at BW rather than catch the bus or ferry but I wouldn't feel particularly safe in the area under the bridge / flyover.

Not sure about the coffee and pastries ( can't remember) but all the rest (and lots of greenery) can be found at the Nantes site.

Not terribly convenient to Bristol though

The proposal for Bristol seems to be neither one or the other, but just an ill judged attempt at compromise.

It is a similar concept to BW which is very, very, popular. I think the new site if it gets through planning is likely to be the same. I'm not sure that is ill judged.

The unused railway line at the back of the site is earmarked for a re-connection to Portishead on the coast. I think there is a station planned at Pill, further along the Avon. I presume there will be other stops and maybe easy city access and no doubt eco friendly? The big drawback is going to be the ban on diesel vehicles. I support the site plan but I think this is going to be a difficult application. I don't want my personal details in the comments section (our local planning is the same but locally we all know each other anyway.) So because I'm a contributor to CT I can only back the application on here to keep my other details reasonably private.

It would be interesting to know how often the site has flooded, as I believe that was one reason for rejecting it last time. I suppose a flooding event is a bit more difficult to predict than at York or Tewkesbury, where the flood pulses can be tracked as they move down stream. At Bristol it is both a function of river levels and very high spring tides, the combined levels of which are perhaps more difficult to predict. You don't really want to be evacuating every 12 hours.

It is better than BW, it has a MSP.

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I suppose you could ask the same about BW, both have the tidal  Avon alongside. 

Baltic Wharf as been there a long time and maybe flooding was not such an high profile concern at the time. No idea if BW has flooded in the past

Yes, more-or-less the same risk. I crossed the Cumberland Basin most days from 1997 to 2010 and don’t recall anything other than fairly minor localised flooding on exceptional spring tides which are obviously predictable.