There is a view on the horizon for the city: Council grants popular bar permission to have a rooftop terrace

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There's a new view on the horizon for Bristol’s Harbourside – and this time, it's from the top. City councillors have unanimously approved plans for a rooftop bar at the popular V-Shed, after a dramatic change of heart from planning officers.

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00:00there's a new view on the horizon for bristol's harbourside and this time is from the top city

00:07councillors have unanimously approved plans for a rooftop bar at the popular v shed after a dramatic

00:14change of heart from planning officers just two weeks ago officials told the bar's owners

00:20that refusal was likely due to concerns about how the new venue might affect views of bristol

00:27cathedral but now the council's development committee have decided that the visual impact

00:34is minor and the benefits major labour councillors fabian breckles called it an excellent idea adding

00:43that we need to attract people and to generate revenue he described the view obstruction as

00:49minimal from just one spot and the benefits far outweigh the harm

00:55libden councillor caroline gooch went further criticizing what she called the inconsistent

01:01reasoning from historic england she said that you have to be over a certain height to see the view

01:08anyway and praise the plans as a great addition to the harbourside green councillor guy pultney

01:16backed the bar but warned that his support was based on helping bristol's struggling night time

01:23economy he said that the heritage harm is fairly minimal support also came from conservative councillor

01:31richard eddy who said it was utterly bogus to claim that the heritage was under threat calling the terrace

01:39which was slightly closer than a church for 우리akberg he stopped seeing his home to also see the

01:44framework of the city and the latitude the future he said he sees a

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