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Building work to start soon at Hengrove Park
Hengrove Park has been called the largest development in Bristol in a generation.
Once completed over the course of the next decade, there will be 1,435 new homes, a public park, and new community and sports facilities on the largest site yet to be developed by council-owned housing company Goram Homes.
Following the final approval for the first phase of the development, building work is now due to start towards the end of 2024 on the site of the former Whitchurch Airfield.
The first phase of new homes will be built to the east of South Bristol Community Hospital.
There will be 209 new homes constructed in the first phase made up of one- and two-bedroom flats and three- and four-bedroom houses.
Houses and flats at Hengrove Park will connect to a new energy centre providing low carbon heating and hot water to residents through a community district heating network – image: Goram Homes
Barry Parsons, chair of Bristol City Council’s homes & housing delivery committee, said: “Hengrove Park is a brilliant example of Goram Homes transforming council land into high quality, energy-efficient homes, with council housing in the numbers we really need.”
Within the new committee system, Parsons, a Green Party councillor for Easton, holds the equivalent of a cabinet position under the mayoral system.
Former cabinet member for housing, Tom Renhard, is now Labour’s group leader at City Hall.
Parsons said that Hengrove Park is “a long-term project that’s building the right homes, in the right place, and it will be a significant moment when diggers start on site later this year”.
Barry Parsons, chair of Bristol City Council’s homes & housing delivery policy committee, says we must build sustainable homes to tackle the climate emergency – photo: Sam Marshall-Evans
Goram Homes managing director, Stephen Baker, added: “We know how important this site is to local people, so we’ll continue to work alongside neighbours, community groups and those passionate about making Hengrove Park a thriving new neighbourhood.
“We’re not only building much needed new homes here, we’re also creating new facilities and public spaces for the whole Hengrove and Whitchurch community to enjoy.”
Main image: Goram Homes
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