Bid to redevelop Bristol’s ice rink into Student Apartments

Student accommodation provider Unite has submitted its planning application to redevelop Bristol’s ice rink, due to close next month.

The rink would be demolished and replaced by single studio apartments and shared flats for more than 500 students at the Trenchard Street site.

As exclusively revealed in the Post, the historic rink, where Olympic champion Robin Cousins learned to skate, will close for good on October 31 as a result of the redevelopment of the 1960s building in the city centre. Bristol-based Unite has owned the complex for ten years and has decided the time has come to press ahead with a scheme to redevelop the concrete building, which sits on the O2 concert venue …

 

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