Gateway 2 approval delay pushes back Bristol student scheme

The country’s biggest student accommodation developer has had to push back the opening of a £70m student scheme in Bristol because of delays caused by Gateway 2 approval from the fire safety watchdog.
The 500-bed Freestone Island development scheme in the Temple Meads area of Bristol was originally timetabled to open by September next year, but delays in gaining key Gateway 2 approval to start construction have now pushed the project back by around a year.
Joe Lister, Unite chief exe