By Andrew Waller, 7 June 2026 ​ With just a couple of business days to go before the comments deadline for the St Joseph's planning application, responses are fast building towards the 100-mark—with objections running at around 95%. I have filed my own objection—see below, along with my comments about noise concerns. To recap: Developer Harringay Real Estate seeks planning permission to turn the former St Joseph's care home at Cotham Hill (see photo above) into student acc

This is the full text of my objection to the St Joseph's planning application. It was submitted to the planning website on Saturday, 6 June 2026. If you want to use this to help you file your own submission, you're welcome to do so but (a) you should write your response in your own words and (b) you must assume responsibility for what you write; the information below is supplied in good faith and I have tried to be accurate, but ultimately you must do your own research. (I h

By Andrew Waller, 14 May 2026 (updated 24 May 2026) ​ Harringay Real Estate has now formally submitted its planning application to convert the former St Joseph’s care home at Cotham Hill into student accommodation. The number of proposed bed spaces is 132, one more than the number trailed in its pre-submission public consultation. ​ Details of the application can be seen on Bristol City Council’s planning website.For reference, the application number is 26/11841/F.The deadl

Reaction to the plan to convert former St Joseph's care home into 131 student studio flats

(21083) Complaint about noise from a large gathering outside shops in Cotham Hill at 10-30pm on 13 November 2021. A video shows 20-30...

(S140) Resident says she was woken three times in a single night by street noise in the vicinity of Hampton Corner, a block of flats at...

(S130) Complaint of noise from Hampton Corner, a block of flats at the junction of Hampton Park and Cotham Hill, late on 30 December...

A developer who was refused planning permission for a 6-bed, new-build student HMO in Hampton Lane, behind 85 Whiteladies Road, is...

(S120) Complaint about noise near the junction of Hampton Park and Cotham Hill in the early hours of 1 November 2020. Resident reports...

A Cotham Hill resident says she had to contact Operation Beech, the police anti-noise patrol, no fewer than eight times in a month to...