Bristol’s Territorial Army headquarters could be turned student apartments
THE historic headquarters of the Territorial Army in Bristol is to be turned into a supermarket and student flats, the Evening Post has learned. But the owners of the buildings and the grounds – the Merchant Venturers – have decided the time has come to develop the site, which is opposite the BBC’s Bristol offices.
Agent Discovery Properties has been appointed to market the site to student accommodation specialists and the major supermarket chains.
The Army Reserves and the Bristol University Officers’ Training Corps (BUOTC) has used the Artillery Grounds in Whiteladies Road as their base in the city since the 1930s …