Indoor arena planned for Bristol’s Ashton Gate

Ashton Gate Stadium, home of Bristol City FC and Bristol Bears rugby club, has revealed plans for a £100M development to extend the stadium footprint to encompass a new sports and entertainment quarter for the city.

A 4,000-capacity home for Bristol Flyers Basketball is the centrepiece of the proposed Ashton Gate Sports & Convention Centre – which will include additional housing, a multi-storey car park along with two hotels.

Ashton Gate Chairman Martin Griffiths said: “We are pleased to be able to reveal these plans. It has been more than two years in the planning to ensure that Phase II of Ashton Gate’s redevelopment into a city quarter focused on sport and entertainment was indeed viable, sustainable and most importantly achievable.

“Following the successful £45M transformation of Ashton Gate Stadium, on-time and on-budget, it was always the aspiration to develop it further to give our basketball team a permanent and secure playing home.

“The last two years have seen a successful regeneration and stimulus to the area. As one of the city’s largest employers we are proud to have kept true to our promise of delivering a stadium in the heart of the city, with local suppliers and a local workforce. This has had a significant economic impact on the fortunes of many local residents and businesses and we hope that by committing to this next phase that the whole of Bristol will reap the benefits.”