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A controversial housing development on the former site of Bristol Zoo in Clifton, UK, is to go ahead despite public backlash.
Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 06 Sep 2023
A controversial housing development on the former site of Bristol Zoo in Clifton, UK, is to go ahead despite public backlash.
Planning permission for the estate, which consists of nearly 200 homes, was granted in April this year.
Bristol Zoological Society, which owns the land, has said that the development will provide funding for the Bristol Zoo Project, which wiill see the opening of a new location in Cribbs Causeway.
However, activist group Save Bristol Zoo Gardens has pledged to keep fighting against the development and threatened legal action against the plans, with hopes that the the Secretary of State would call in the application and carry out an inquiry into the proposal.
“Plan for 200 new homes in Clifton will process, after the Secretary of State declined to ‘call-in’ the decision,” Bristol mayor Marvin Rees confirmed on X, the micro-blogging site formerly known as Twitter.
Rees had previously backed the plans, saying that the development would not only help with the city’s housing shortage, as well as see the zoo gardens opened to the public for free.
“The conservation charity can thrive at a site ten times bigger, while the old zoo gardens open for free to people in Bristol,” Rees added.
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