£35m scheme to free up space for new housing and offices
Kier has won the £35m deal to build a transport hub set to become a key enabling project on the 10,000-home Bristol Temple Quarter masterplan.
The AHR-designed Southern Gateway scheme includes a 379-space multi-storey car park, a 530-space cycle storage building and new bus stops next to Bristol Temple Meads station.
The project will replace a surface car park, freeing up space for new homes and office developments on the wider Prior + Partners-designed masterplan for Bristol Temple Quarter.
A standstill period finishes at the end of this month with Kier scheduled to complete the deal by March 2028.
Construction on the scheme, which also includes improvements to walking and cycling routes, is expected to start on site by the middle of this year.
Arup is acting as project manager, lead consultant, structural and civil engineer, transport engineer, fire consultant and energy consultant.
AHR is lead architect, urban designer and landscape architect, with the project team also including Mott MacDonald on ground investigation and archaeology and Alan Baxter on heritage.
Client on the job is Bristol Temple Quarter Limited Liability Partnership (BTQ LLP), the body responsible for delivering the masterplan. It includes Homes England and Bristol city council.
The wider 135ha masterplan is set to be one of the UK’s largest regeneration projects in the coming years.
Last month, Muse was selected as preferred development partner on two key plots at the 10,000-home Bristol Temple Quarter scheme in the middle of the city.
The firm has been chosen to lead the overhaul of Temple Meads West, an area to the west of Bristol Temple Meads railway station, and another plot at St Philip’s Marsh.
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