Hundreds of new homes being planned or built in Lockleaze at the moment will be for the people of Lockleaze, the city council’s housing chief has announced. A special new ‘Lockleaze Lettings Policy’, the first of its kind in Bristol, will see anyone on the housing waiting list in or from Lockleaze being given priority to bid for the new social housing being built around the Bristol suburb.
The new lettings policy is intended to make sure people in Lockleaze who need new homes will be more likely to get them. At the moment, people are eligible for social or affordable housing through the council’s housing waiting list if they already live in Bristol - but that means people can often end up getting housed on the other side of the city from where their roots are.
Council housing chief Tom Renhard said the idea of the Lockleaze Lettings Policy was to make sure people in Lockleaze see the benefits of the new housing that’s being built around the area.
