Bristol City Council had to go back to the drawing board on plans to build more than 1,400 new homes on a park in South Bristol - because the council scrapped its own bidding process.
Bristol Live can reveal that a ‘new approach’ announced by the Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees just before Christmas was actually prompted by a failure to find any developer willing to sign up to the council's plans for Hengrove Park.
The former site of Whitchurch Airport has been earmarked for development for decades, but apart from a few smaller packages of land around the edges, has never been built on.
