Appendix B – PBSA Policy Review
| Area | Wording | Other detail in policy | Not |
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| Purpose-built student accommodation provision – general provisions
In all cases, proposals for purpose-built student accommodation should:
• Ensure that there will be no adverse impacts on surrounding communities and areas;
• Should be subject to an appropriate management regime;
• Be car-free and deter occupants from the parking of cars elsewhere in the city;
• Make provision for disabled access and disabled parking for occupants and visitors;
• Include active frontages and incorporate active ground floor uses wherever possible and appropriate. Development will be expected to provide a good standard of accommodation by meeting relevant requirements and standards set out in other development plan policies. | | |
| Bristol Adopted | Policy BCAP4: Specialist student housing in Bristol City Centre (Bristol Local Plan – Bristol Central Area Plan)
Specialist student housing schemes that contribute to the diversity of uses within the local area will be acceptable within Bristol City Centre unless it would create or contribute to a harmful concentration of specialist student housing within any given area.
Bristol Local Plan Site Allocations and Development Management Policies
DM2: Residential Sub-divisions, Shared and Specialist Housing
Proposals for:
- the sub-division of existing dwellings to flats; the conversion of existing dwellings or construction of new buildings to be used as houses in multiple occupation; the intensification of existing houses in multiple occupation; specialist student housing; and other forms of shared housing
will not be permitted where: | | |