Housing Plans for 56 new flats at former factory site approved

PLANS have been approved to demolish a historic factory in an east Bristol suburb and build 56 flats. South Gloucestershire Council has permitted developers to knock down the former Bristol Uniforms Ltd factory in Staple Hill and build three storeys of social housing.

- Alex SEABROOK Local democracy reporter

How the Bristol Uniforms development would look

For more than a century the factory, behind the High Street and off Victoria Street, employed locals in the area. But recently the company, which makes uniforms for firefighters, relocated to a larger factory in Yate leaving the site in Staple Hill empty.

Refurbishing the factory was considered to be too expensive and the access is too tight for modern requirements. The social housing plans were approved by councillors on the development management committee yesterday.