EXCLUSIVE: Council-owned housing company to transform bonded warehouses
By Martin Booth, Tuesday Mar 2, 2021
A tightrope strung between two historic bonded warehouses was the centrepiece of the launch event for Bristol’s year as European Green Capital as a daredevil cyclist traversed across the 120-metre long span.
A and B bond warehouses have for more than a century stood as permanent reminders of Bristol’s days as a port that imported goods from across the world.
Now, as part of the plans for the controversial Western Harbour development, the two imposing buildings could soon be getting new leases of life with hundreds of homes within their distinctive red brick shells.