We're very pleased to share with you a press release issued on our behalf:

SOUTH BRISTOL’S ONLY REMAINING BINGO OPERATOR SUBMITS PLANNING APPLICATION FOR NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART CLUB

Club 3000 Bingo will relocate to Hartcliffe Way after 12 years at Broadwalk Shopping Centre 

Community response to its plans have been ‘overwhelmingly supportive’

Club 3000 Bingo – the only remaining bingo club in South Bristol – has submitted its planning application to build a new state-of-the-art club to serve its many thousands of regular Bristol customers. 

For the past 12 years, Club 3000 Bingo has been based in Knowle’s Broadwalk Shopping Centre. But the shopping centre has come to the end of its life and is set to be redeveloped. 

After years of searching for a new home, the family-owned business has bought a site at 37 Hartcliffe Way – currently a vacant commercial yard - where the company is applying for planning permission to build its new bespoke club. 

Before submitting its planning application, Club 3000 Bingo held a public consultation, asking the community what they think of the new plans. The response from the local people was overwhelmingly supportive. 

For many of its regular customers Club 3000 Bingo is their main social outlet. One person who provided feedback said: “I am an old-aged pensioner, and this is the only place I go. I will be lost when it closes, so the sooner the new site opens the better, and the plans look lovely.”

The new club – located about two miles from Broadwalk Shopping Centre - will include great food and a bar for Club 3000’s customers. As well as the new building, Club 3000 Bingo is proposing a car park for approximately 144 car parking spaces, including dedicated spaces for blue badge holders and electric vehicle charging points. 

Club 3000 Bingo founder Brian Fraser said: “It’s been an emotional time at Club 3000 Bingo as we had to close the doors at our Broadwalk Shopping Centre club. For many of our regulars this is their only social outlet – it means a lot to them, and to us. So there were a lot of tears shed.

“But we are very excited that we’ve now submitted our planning application. We are looking forward to a positive dialogue with officers at Bristol City Council, and hope our application can be approved swiftly, so we can get on with building a fantastic state-of-the-art bingo club for our customers to enjoy. We’re really looking forward to opening the doors and welcoming all our customers back.”

Club 3000 Bingo has expanded from just a single venue in 2006, to now operating 24 sites across England, Scotland and Wales, making it the largest independent bingo club operator in the UK and 3rd largest bingo chain. 

In Bristol, it has 34,000 members, with 3,000 actively playing bingo at the existing club. 

Anyone wishing to comment on the application can do so here: https://pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=T5YMAVDNI5000