People who have a connection to Bristol will be given priority when bidding for a home at a key development in the south of the city. Work to build 50 flats above a new shop on East Street in Bedminster is currently underway after work stalled earlier this year, with developers Firmstone struggling with the soaring costs in the building industry.
The firm began work last year to demolish the former Argos store and build a new development of retail units fronting onto East Street, with flats above and behind. The project was rescued earlier this year after the developer signed a deal with housing association Bromford.
Bromford said that 30 of the new homes would be let at social rent levels - the most affordable of all the various definitions of ‘affordable housing’ in planning terms, with tenants coming from the council’s HomeChoice housing waiting list.
