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Bristol City Council Bristol City Council has unveiled plans for the development of a £22m leisure centre and swimming pool at Hengrove Park by autumn 2010. 25-Jul-2008 Bristol City Council is planning to sell off 35 of its 52 offices and shed up to 450 jobs, as part of a reorganisation aimed at making savings of £17m a year by 2012. 19-Jun-2008 Bristol City Council has approved plans for the development of a £8m 175-bedroom Premier Travel Inn hotel in Lewins Mead. 23-Nov-2007 Bristol City Council is to consider plans from the University of the West of England for the £8m revamp of its Fishponds campus, including a new teaching block and student accommodation. 18-Jun-2007 Bristol City Council has approved plans for the development of a £19m Museum of Bristol at the site of the former Industrial Museum on Princes Wharf by summer 2009. 12-Mar-2007 Bristol City Council has approved plans from Holland House Hotels to build a £35m four-star hotel at the Phoenix House site in Redcliffe by next March, with the creation of up to 200 jobs. 09-Jun-2006 Bristol City Council is considering plans from Rightacres of Cardiff to set up a £35m luxury hotel in a disused office building in Redcliffe. 06-Feb-2006 Bristol City Council is considering plans for the £20m refit of Colston Hall into a leading music venue by 2008. 13-Jan-2006 Bristol City Council is planning to close seven of its 15 area housing offices, with the loss of about 120 jobs. 17-Nov-2005 Bristol City Council has approved plans for the development of a new centre for heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, including 117 beds, four operating theatres and four laboratories. 28-Oct-2005 Bristol City Council has approved plans for the £200m redevelopment of Hengrove Park, including a new hospital, homes, a swimming pool, shops, offices and a public park. 01-Jul-2005 Bristol City Council has selected a consortium of SMG, Orion Land, Bellway and Sir Robert McAlpine to build a 10,000-seat stadium at Temple Meads by 2009, for use as a sporting and music venue. 30-Mar-2005 Bristol City Council is to consider plans from Bristol Rovers to build a new £2m stand with 5,500 seats at the Memorial Stadium. 22-Nov-2004 Bristol City Council is in discussions with Kuumba about plans to set up a £5m arts centre at Westmorland House in Stokes Croft, including a 400-seat auditorium and dance studio. 07-May-2004 Bristol City Council has secured a £11m lottery grant to build a Museum of Bristol. 30-Jan-2004 Bristol City Council is to seek up to £14m of lottery funding for the development of a local history museum. 08-Jan-2003 Bristol City Council has allocated almost £7m to three arts and leisure projects, including the redevelopment of Colston Hall, a 10,000-seat arena near Temple Meads and a revamp of the Arnolfini Gallery arts centre. 20-Dec-2002 Bristol City Council is considering plans from First Group for the £40m redevelopment of the city's bus station to create a modern transport interchange. 19-Dec-2002 Bristol City Council is to trial a battery recycling project in partnership with the Department of Trade & Industry, in which refuse collectors will send batteries to a Britannia Zinc recycling plant at Avonmouth. 28-Aug-2002 Bristol City Council is considering plans to spend £40m transforming the city's swimming facilities over the next 10 years. 17-Jul-2002 Bristol City Council is to consider plans for the multi-million pound redevelopment of Colston Hall and Colston House into a world-class centre for music. 10-Apr-2002 Bristol City Council is proposing investments of up to £300m in local cultural, leisure and sporting facilities to support its bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008, including a £50m music centre and a £30m sports stadium. 01-Mar-2002 Bristol City Council is planning to invest £9m in three new swimming centres over the next 10 years. 22-Feb-2002 Bristol City Council has approved plans for the development of a two-storey visitors' centre at the Clifton Suspension Bridge by spring 2003. 18-Jan-2002 Bristol City Council has approved a £110m plan from Crest Nicholson to build a multiscreen cinema, 450 homes and offices at Canon's Marsh. 19-Oct-2001 Bristol City Council has selected an alliance of Land Securities and Hammerson as preferred developer for the £257m Broadmead centre project, which will involve a new department store, shops, homes and restaurants. 19-Oct-2000 Bristol City Council is in negotiations to sell the former Shipway dairy farm to Bristol Port Company, in order to allow the expansion of Royal Portbury Dock. 30-Jun-2000 Bristol City Council has rejected a plan by Crest Nicholson for a £200m dockside redevelopment, following complaints from residents that the scheme was inappropriate. 28-Jan-2000 Bristol City Council is considering plans for the £500m expansion of the Broadmead shopping centre over Bond Street, and is in discussions with Hammerson and Land Securities. 16-Dec-1999 Bristol City Council is to receive new plans from John Nike Leisure for a £100m leisure and sports park, including football stadium, ice-skating, ski slope, indoor arena and hotel. 24-Nov-1999 Bristol City Council is considering plans to use road tolls to help provide funding for a £105m supertram system that would transport people between Bradley Stoke and the city centre. 09-Jun-1999 Bristol City Council is to push ahead with the development of plans for a £105m supertram project, despite the government saying that there will be no new cash for light rail schemes for up to five years. 24-Mar-1999 More from the Leisure sector Related pages: Dean & Dyball InterContinental Hotels Liverpool City Council Lancaster City Council Sportscotland Bristol City Council website: www.bristol-city.gov.uk The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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