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A CGI of the proposed £30m redevelopment
at the ss Great Britian, Bristol
Bristol
TLT’s commercial property team has completed a significant milestone
in the £30m redevelopment of Brunel’s ss Great Britain to help
secure its long-term future as a maritime visitor attraction, museum and
education centre.
Following the negotiation of a 150-year lease from the city council, the
team has completed the sale of land around the historic ship, granting
developer Linden Homes a 149-year underlease. The development will include
145 apartments, and accommodation for the ss Great Britain Trust’s
new research library, archive and education centre in what will become
known as the ‘Brunel Institute’. Under the scheme, Brunel’s
ss Great Britain receives a significant capital fund that it will invest
to help pay towards long term conservation, maintenance and development
of Brunel’s only surviving ship, the ss Great Britain which rests
on a glass’sea’ in her original Bristol dry dock.
This highly prestigious development scheme will recreate the character
of the original Victorian dockyard, before it was destroyed during the
Second World War. Much of the ground floor of the development will be
owned by the ss Great Britain Trust to house the ‘Brunel Institute’.
It will hold the Trust’s nationally important David MacGregor Library,
a new state-of-the-art archive and academic and teaching and research
unit in a proposed partnership with the
Matthew Tanner MBE, director of the ss Great Britain Trust, said, “This is not just another development scheme – this will provide a respectful and fitting backdrop to the ss Great Britain, as well as delivering a major fund for investment in the ship’s future.”
Nick Pritchard, partner and commercial property solicitor at TLT says, “Working with the ss Great Britain Trust, Bristol City Council and Linden Homes, we have developed a significant and imaginative solution to secure the historic ship’s long term future.”
This is the second phase of the vision to secure the long-term future of Brunel’s ss Great Britain. Major conservation work on the ship was completed in July 2005, preserving her historic iron hull under the glass ‘sea’, and providing an exciting new visitor experience.
Bristol
Hargreaves Lansdown is to move into a new headquarters building at the city’s prestigious Harbourside development.
They are to move into 1 College Square, a 100,000 sq ft office building that is to be built as part of Crest Nicholson’s Harbourside development with a frontage on Anchor Road.
Planning permission was granted by Bristol City Council in September and construction work will start on the new building in the early new year. Hargreaves Lansdown will move in during 2009.
Currently the firm operates from four locations throughout Bristol and the move will unite the firm under one roof in purpose-built headquarters.
King Sturge and DTZ acted for Crest Nicholson in the deal with Williams Gunter Hardwick representing Hargreaves Lansdown, who have taken a 17-year lease on a building that is costing £30m to build.