Bristol City Council’s drive to see 500 new ‘affordable’ homes built every year is faring ‘significantly worse’ than the target, and the worst case scenario is that barely more than half the target is met this year.
The council’s housing team is blaming external issues that are affecting the construction industry as a whole, with a labour shortage and spiralling costs of materials slowing down the rate at which all homes are built in the city.
Yesterday, Bristol Live revealed that the city’s housing chief had written to one developer wanting to build 850 flats in South Bristol to say he had ‘serious concerns’ with the fact that only seven per cent of them would be classed as ‘affordable’, but across the city, the council has lowered the proportion of affordable homes being required of developers, in a bid to get more homes built overall.
