Clifton Village — a project developed by THAT DM

Mixed-use scheme · Bristol

Clifton Village

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Asset

Mixed-use scheme

Retail, F&B, public realm

Approach

One operating whole

Not separate units

Design lead

Operator's view

Trade before layout

Shared

Plant and servicing

Planned centrally

01 — Overview

Mixed-use only works when the parts are designed to trade together. This scheme was planned as a single operating entity from the first drawing.

Delivered as one operating whole, rather than as separate units handed to separate operators.

02 The position

A scheme where retail, food and beverage and public realm sit against each other, and where separate design packages would have produced separate, competing operations.

03 What we did

Set servicing, waste, plant and deliveries as scheme-wide decisions rather than unit-by-unit ones, so that no tenant inherited a problem created by the drawing next to theirs.

Planned the public realm as trading space — where people stop, sit and spend — instead of as the area left over between buildings.

04 The outcome

Delivered as one operating whole, with the ground floor working as a destination rather than as a row of independent lettings.

Our role

  • Masterplanning
  • Development
  • F&B strategy
  • Public realm
  • Delivery

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