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Rema Mukena

Fate of Blue Mountain in Stokes Croft to be decided next week

The fate of a Stokes Croft nightclub - which faces demolition - will be decided next week after hanging in the balance for more than a year.

Blue Mountain has been an integral part of Bristol’s music scene for 26 years but could soon be developed into student flats and a commercial space.

Proposals to knock the building down, submitted to Bristol City Council, have been met with 100 objections, including one from The Coal Authority.

The application will be heard at City Hall by on Wednesday (October 16).

If approved the scheme would provide flexible commercial space at ground floor, office space on the first floor, with 245 student beds built in tower blocks up to eight-storeys high.

An artist's impression of the development from Moon Street (Franklin Ellis Architects)

Communal facilities for the residents are provided at ground floor level in Moon Street.

The planning document states the block adjacent to the Full Moon pub would be five-storeys, rising to six-storeys away from the street edge.

The northern block, which fronts Stokes Croft, would be six-storeys, rising to seven-storeys away from the street edge.

The central block to Stokes Croft is seven-storeys, stepping to eight-storeys away from the street edge, making it the tallest block which would sit in the centre of the development.

The application has been recommended for refusal by Bristol City Council.

Council officers cited land stability, as well as the height, scale, massing and overall design of the project among their concerns.

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