St Mary Redcliffe Project 450 RIBA 2 Stage End Report

5.0 CONSULTATION
In order to ensure continued project support, develop ownership and, ultimately, de-risk
the eventual Consents applications, further public and stakeholder consultation has occurred
throughout RIBA 2, including:
A BRISTOL DAC UPDATE ON 28 AUG 2019
Held in the Parish Office and attended by:
Dan Tyndall - Vicar of St Mary Redcliffe
Rhys Williams - P450 Project Coordinator and Research Assistant
Simon Pugh-Jones - Chair of Bristol DAC
Dan Talkes - Project Architect
This session provided an open and informal update on P450’s developed and focussed specifically
on the question of how the design team could best engage with the DAC and its processes
A PUBLIC CONSULTATION EVENT ON 19 SEPT 2019
In summary, the feedback concluded:
• The RIBA 2 proposals represent considerable progress since the last round of consultations
(Sept 2018)
• The scheme remains considerably more comfortable and proportionate than any of the
competition proposals
• In principle, the proposals breach no ‘red-lines’ and none of the consultees anticipates the need
to be ‘obstructive’ to the project’s progression
• The emerging details offer considerable reassurance, and indicate a respect commensurate with
the existing building’s significance
• Given the complexity of levels, a walk-through model / visualisation, indicating the sequence of
arrival and circulation, will be critical for the Consents applications
Held in the church, and open to all, this session was attended by over 80 members of the
congregation and community of St Mary Redcliffe
Following short project updates, by both Dan Tyndall and the Project Architect, refreshments
were offered, and an informal questions and answers session conducted in the South Transept,
around a series of explanatory presentation boards and the physical model
Attendees were invited to both ‘ask the architect’ and record their feedback on speciallyprepared
questionnaires
A STAKEHOLDER EVENT ON 19 NOV 2019
Held in St John’s Chapel, and attended by:
Bristol DAC
The Church Buildings Council
Historic England
Bristol Civic Society
The Canynges Society
With invitations also extended to:
The Victorian Society, and:
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
This session consisted of detailed project updates from both Dan Tyndall and the Project
Architect, followed by an opportunity to inspect a series of presentation boards and the physical
model
As one might expect, given the calibre of the attendees, the critique was astute, robust, and
reasoned
‘The northside building is now very modest - given the
constraints, it’s incredible - miraculous even - that you’ve
managed to accommodate so many functions so successfully’
An example of feedback received during the Stakeholder Event