{"id":3398,"date":"2023-11-14T02:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T02:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/temple-meads-what-it-needs-2\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T02:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T02:29:01","slug":"temple-meads-what-it-needs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/temple-meads-what-it-needs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Meads – What It Needs (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Only A “Vision” …<\/span><\/p>\n

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… but blog readers will be thrilled to see that it already has a logo …<\/div>\n
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… and a lavish printed report.<\/p>\n

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Marvyn Rees’ video is a bit too visionary and over-full with valiant attempts to score political and environmental brownie points.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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And we have heard it all before! The report is well filled with diagrams, artists’ impression and a good wodge of statistics BUT it doesn’t actually explain how this “Vision” will be turned into reality.<\/div>\n\n

Where’s the money coming from?<\/p>\n

Currently, as we saw yesterday and as we gleaned from yesterday’s Uni video, the new campus is happening.<\/p>\n

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Here we can see the broad outline of the various Uni blocks replacing the now-demolished postal sorting building.<\/div>\n\n

And the first impact on Temple Meads station can be seen lower left on the above picture. The station is getting a brand new Eastern Entrance<\/span>.<\/p>\n

This will be constructed at the eastern end of the existing station subway …<\/p>\n

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… one of the unsung glories of the station.<\/div>\n\n
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The entrance looks fine, if a little utilitarian compared with the station itself.\n
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Quite often the trees never make it in the final resolution of the plans; but Notwotk Rail has been busy excavating …<\/p>\n

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… which involved the temporary closure of platform 15.<\/p>\n

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This, the most easterly of the platforms, is shown below as it was when the sorting office still stood in all its abandoned decay.<\/p>\n

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The report shows us some small infill developments on Temple Gate at the foot of the station approach road.\n
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The station approach is hidden by the buses!<\/p>\n

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So the initial plans for the immediate environs of the station appear in the diagram below in red.\n
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fbb is not sure what the giant cake tin (upper left) might be, but is sure that the layout of the University development looks very different from the white-block version above. Let’s hope somebody knows which one they are building!<\/p><\/div>\n

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But there are lots of pretty artists’ impressions to whet the jaded appetite of Bristolians.<\/div>\n
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fbb was not quite so impressed with this one, showing long boats (technically NOT “barges”) delivering coal to the Uni boiler house.\n
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In an fbb exclusive, this blog can bring you a picture of the first boiler unit awaiting delivery …<\/p><\/div>\n

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… at the St Phillips Marsh depot of the installers.<\/p>\n

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Which brings us neatly to the fact that this Temple Quarter “Vision” …\n
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… includes the whole of the St Phillips Marsh area!<\/p><\/div>\n

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And what might the dreamers be doing about buses?<\/div>\n
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And where might the new SOUTH entrance to Temple Meads be?<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Next Temple Quarter blog : Wednesday 15th Nov\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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