End of the road Multi-storey car park will never reopen, say owners

THE ageing multi-storey car park at South Bristol’s biggest shopping centre will never reopen, its owners have said.

- Tristan CORK

The car park at the rear of the Broadwalk Shopping Centre has now reached the point where “mitigation measures are now exhausted”, and it must remain closed.

The centre, its car park, and the bingo hall and snooker hall on the same site will eventually be demolished - potentially as early as the end of next year - to make way for hundreds of new homes as part of a transformation into what the developers have called ‘Redcatch Quarter.

The owners of the shopping centre have told the Post how the end finally came for the car park, which was built in the early 1970s alongside the ageing shopping centre. And Broadside Holdings said they were now hoping to find alternative arrangements for people who park to use the local services in the shopping centre, which include a dentists and a library.

Broadside are holding the first public consultation on their renewed and scaled-back housing plans for Redcatch Quarter today at two drop-in sessions at a nearby church.

The plans will see around 500 new homes being built there, rather than the 850 the developers obtained planning permission for in controversial circumstances back in the summer of 2023.