Cumulative Impact Assessment Consultation 2023
This consultation has now concluded.
Overview
Bristol City Council currently has a Cumulative Impact Area (“CIA”) in place in the City Centre. A CIA helps to manage the number and type and density of licensed premises within an area. Licensed premises include places which sell alcohol, provide late-night hot food or hot drinks (between 11pm and 5am), or where a range of sporting, music or performance events take place. You can find out more about licensed premises on the council's webpages.
Bristol City Council is consulting on whether to continue the existing Cumulative Impact Area (“CIA”) in Bristol City Centre. You can tell us if you think the existing CIA should be kept as it is, or removed altogether, or about any changes you think are needed. You can also suggest other areas of the city where you think a CIA might be beneficial.
You can read our Equalities Impact Assessment (EQIA) for the CIA in the 'Documents' section on this page.
The extent of the existing Cumulative Impact Area is shown in the map:
Click here for a larger version of the map above.Have your say
Please click on the link below ('Take part in the consultation here') to find out more information about the City Centre CIA and to give your views. Please make sure you submit your response by 21 September 2023.
You can request a paper version or alternative formats of this survey by emailing consultation@bristol.gov.uk or by calling 0117 922 2848.
What happens next?
All responses to this consultation will be analysed and the feedback will help us develop proposals for whether to keep a CIA in the city centre, and whether CIAs are needed in other parts of the city. Depending on the evidence received, the council can propose to retain the existing CIA, implement one or more new CIAs which cover a different area, or withdraw the CIA entirely.
The final decisions about the proposals will be taken by the Licensing Committee. If we propose to keep the CIA unchanged in the city centre, or withdraw the CIA altogether, we would not have to consult again before making a decision. If, having reviewed the responses to this consultation, we propose to amend the city centre CIA, or if we propose one or more new CIAs in other locations, we would consult again on those specific proposals.
We expect the Licensing Committee will decide on the City Centre CIA during late 2023 / early 2024. If we need to consult first on specific proposals for amendments to the City Centre CIA or new CIAs in other locations, the Licensing Committee would make their decisions later in 2024. The Licensing Committee will take responses to the consultation into consideration when making their decisions. This review takes place every three years.
This consultation has now concluded.