Submitted proposals for White Hart Lodge
Submitted proposals for White Hart Lodge
Bath Road, Brislington, Bristol, BS4 5BD
Bath Road, Brislington, Bristol, BS4 5BD
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Introduction
Introduction
In October 2023 Meadow Care Homes submitted proposals to redevelop White Hart Lodge in Brislington. The full suite of application documents for planning and Listed building consents can be viewed on the Council's planning portal using references 23/04046/F and 23/04047/LA . This followed public consultation and stakeholder engagement in January/February 2023.
The proposals have now been amended following ongoing discussions with Bristol City Council officers and an arson attack in April 2024. The latest plans particularly respond to feedback from heritage consultees regarding the design of the development and its relationship to the existing Grade II Listed White Hart Lodge.
In July 2025, amended proposals were submitted to the Council and can now be seen on the planning portal using the reference above. A summary is shown below.
The original proposals and how the feedback was responded to in 2023 can be found on the following pages:
Amended proposals - submitted July 2025
Amended proposals - submitted July 2025
This latest proposal features an 80-bed Care Home providing a social centre for those living on site and for the use of the wider local community, together with seven key- worker/staff residential flats.
As with the original proposals, the ground and first floors of the existing Listed building are common spaces, where the community and care home may meet to share the facilities provided. This includes the original ground floor café/coffee bar, hair & beauty salon and massage suites, and additional private therapeutic consulting suites, meeting & exercise rooms. On the first floor a dedicated performance space will be acoustically attenuated, suited for many cultural uses such as recitals and performances, club meetings and exhibitions & classes.
Access between all uses will be through the two-storey open atrium, which at first floor opens to connect the performance space with the central courtyard garden.
Reduced Footprint
Reduced Footprint
The principal use of the site is for the provision of an 80 bed Care Home, which remains the same in the new proposals.
The main reduction in the footprint is the removal of the two residential buildings fronting onto the A4 Brislington Hill and positioned to each side of White Hart Lodge.
Left: Original footprint Right: Revised footprint
Reduced Mass
Reduced Mass
The massing of the main Care Home building has been rearranged to be subservient to the rear of White Hart Lodge. A two-storey extensively glazed entrance extension connects the existing Listed Building with the proposed new Care Home, and this then rises progressively to three and finally four-storeys towards the back of the site.
Extent of retained Listed structures
Extent of retained Listed structures
In addition to the retention of the frontage building, the rear 18th Century range also remains. Only the 20th century flat roof extensions will be removed.
Use of the existing Listed building
Use of the existing Listed building
As with the original proposals, the ground and first floors of the existing building are used as common spaces where the community and care home may meet to share the facilities provided including the original ground floor café and ancillary uses, and the first floor meeting/performance space.
Top: Massing of the original scheme, showing the Listed building in red
Bottom: Massing of the new proposed scheme, showing the Listed building in red
Design
Design
The new extensively glazed Entrance Atrium is reduced to two-storeys. This acts to distance yet connect the Listed Building and the Care Home, which then rises progressively to four storeys at the back of the site. Each stepback creates the opportunity for a series of accessible roof terraces, which add to the available open outdoor space and the planting of which softens the edges of the new building, linking the planting to Brislington Brook and the new central sensory garden courtyard.
Key Workers Residential Provision
The scale of the key-worker residential provision has been significantly reduced to the benefit of the setting of the Listed building and impact on the traffic movements on and around the proposal. The number of units has been reduced from 20 to7, which has also resulted in a reduction of parking spaces from 18 to 15.
Section through the internal garden
View from Runnymead Avenue
The Care Home
Along Brislington Brook residential bedroom suites are arranged to follow the brook, which results in an informal ‘meandering’ layout which is reflected in the internal ‘street’ within the care home, which also reduces in width as you walk away from the atrium. A planted landscaped walk also follows the bank of the brook, and the rooms look out to the west over the walk and the brook.
Ground floor bedroom suites can have access to the brookside walk but this would be subject to individual residents’ circumstances. Bedrooms suites on the opposite side of the ‘street’ look out to the east across the landscaped central garden. Varying communal spaces on both sides of the ‘street’ are also provided, some of which have outside access with loggias and patios.
Materials
Materials
Materials have been chosen to match the Listed building, with render cleanly finishing to neat, sharp trims to window and door openings, horizontal movement joints mark the floor levels, which echo the banding on the existing building. Vertically slatted Oak boarding is used to enclose the visitor car park to maintain ventilation, and further reduce its scale.
Proposed view coming up Bath Road
Proposed view from the brook
3D model of the revised scheme
Plan showing the vehicular access point from Brislington Hill (A4) with Runnymead Avenue to the left of the site
Access & Parking
Access & Parking
Level access is provided at all entrances. The two- storey glazed atrium is the central connection for all movements between the existing building and the surrounding development.
Two lifts are positioned for use by residents, staff, visitors, and the public, with one lift to the rear of the delivery bay designated exclusively for the servicing of the home.
All vehicular access to the site utilises existing entrance and exit points over existing or improved dropped kerbs directly onto the A4 Brislington Hill.
Access on foot (or by bicycle) will be via Runnymead Avenue to the East or from the North, across the A4, via the existing pedestrian crossings and footbridge flyover.
The reduction in key-worker residential provision will result in less traffic movements on and around the site with parking spaces also reduced from 18 to 15.
The delivery area has been relocated so that it is now accessible from Bath Road, with good visibility and turning space, instead of from Runnymead Avenue. Parking spaces within Runnymead Avenue are unaffected.
Landscape Design
Landscape Design
The scheme proposes a range of different dedicated planted areas, with the buildings around the Central Garden providing varying shade on warm summer days.
Setting the buildings back from the brook in addition to providing space for the brookside walk, also allows for the planting of trees and shrubs, which help to screen the development, particularly as seen from neighbouring propoerties.
The landscape design also includes a variety of specialist planted areas including the planted roof, sensory garden offering a large range of flora & fauna, with variation in colour, height, smell, and texture to aid those with failing eyesight and mobility.
There is an area to encourage activity, which includes an outdoor table-tennis table, and a “pétanque” field, and with the pathways laid out to provide gentle walking exercise, and finally a restful area within the Central Garden, which has a water feature with moving water, which is surrounded by benches where residents can read and relax to the sound of running water.
Plan showing lower ground floor and landscaped areas with Brislington Brook on the right hand side
If you have any queries, please contact Avril Baker Consultancy at info@abc-pr.co.uk or telephone 0117 977 2002.
White Hart Lodge Updated July 2025 (c) Avril Baker Consultancy
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