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Demolition of Grosvenor Hotel already behind schedule
Demolition work was due to start on the former Grosvenor Hotel on Wednesday, but as of Thursday evening the dilapidated building opposite Temple Meads is still standing.
A note pinned to the fences surrounding the fire-damaged building says that demolition “will be carried out by hand and machine”.
“At present there is no proposal to restore the site,” adds the note which is signed by a representative of building owners Earlcloud.
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A huge fire damaged the former Grosvenor Hotel on the evening of October 15 2022
Bristol City Council have plans to develop Temple Square, made up of the Grosvenor Hotel site and the old George & Railway Hotel and the land in between, “with a mix of employment space and ground floor uses which will complement (their) ambitions for the wider Temple Quarter regeneration programme”.
A court order from Bristol Magistrates’ Court on November 28 2022 told the owner Nimish Popat of Earlcloud that he had five weeks to either shore up the building with specialist scaffolding or demolish it.
It is still within the council’s powers to obtain the Grosvenor Hotel without the consent of Popat under a Compulsory Purchase Order.
The former hotel was once one of the grandest in Bristol
The sign for ‘Grosvenor’ can still be seen on one wall
If the hotel is demolished, a public square will be constructed in its place
The famous Redcliffe flyover took cars beside the hotel from 1967 until 1998
All photos: Martin Booth
Read next:
- The long and sorry saga of the Grosvenor Hotel
- Derelict hotel devastated by huge fire
- Meet the only resident of what was once Bristol’s grandest hotel
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