Appendix B – PBSA Policy Review
Area
| Wording | Other detail in policy | Note |
|---|---|---|
| • up to 200 bed spaces within the existing Clifton residential campus and up to 1,000 bed spaces within the existing Stoke Bishop residential campus; • At appropriate locations identified and demonstrably supported by local communities, including through Neighbourhood Development Plans. | To ensure the best use is made of established and proposed university facilities, appropriate defined locations for single use purpose-built student accommodation include the University of Bristol’s existing city centre precinct and residential sites at Clifton and Stoke Bishop. Other appropriate locations will include those identified by local communities, including through Neighbourhood Development Plans, Neighbourhood Development Orders and other published strategies or community plans | Note |
| Development of purpose-built student accommodation in the following locations that support the development strategy for the area will be permitted provided the total number of bed spaces indicated is not exceeded: • Up to 3,000 bed spaces at Bristol Temple Quarter (2,300) and St. Philip’s Marsh (700); • Up to 1,000 bed spaces within Bristol Shopping Quarter (Broadmead) and Frome Gateway; • Up to 1,000 bed spaces within Central Bedminster; • Up to 500 bed spaces at Western Harbour; | To ensure accommodation in these locations is affordable to all, the policy seeks a proportion (at least 30%) of bed spaces within the development as affordable. Affordable student housing is defined as a bedroom within the development that is provided at a rental cost for the academic year equal to or below 50 per cent of the maximum income that a new full time-student living away from home could receive from the Government’s Maintenance Loan (or any replacement state funding mechanism) for living costs for that academic year. | |
| Development at the above locations will be expected to include a proportion of affordable student housing to meet identified need. | ||
| Purpose-built student accommodation provision - other locations | ||
| At other locations any proposals for purpose-built student accommodation should only form part of mixed use developments comprising a proportion of other residential uses. Development should: • Avoid areas with a primarily residential context; • Not result in harmful impacts or a harmful concentration of purpose-built student accommodation within any commercial area; • Not conflict with the delivery of other planning objectives for the area in which it is proposed; • Where the development comprises self-contained (Use Class C3) accommodation provide a contribution towards general purpose affordable housing in line with Joint Spatial Plan Policy 3. |