Developers behind Britain’s first Ikea housebuilding project are having to put people up in AirBnBs over Christmas because the new homes they bought 18 months ago have still not been finished.
Almost 100 people who put down tens of thousands of pounds in deposits for homes on the flagship BoKlok on the Brook development in Bristol in the spring and summer of 2021 have just been told they won’t be moving in this year. There’s still no date confirmed when the houses and apartments in the first phase of the development will be finished.
The delays have left some buyers effectively homeless, and Ikea and the builders Skanska have said they ‘apologise wholeheartedly’ for a catalogue of delays that have hit the site on the Airport Road on the edge of Knowle West. The BoKlok on the Brook development has been one of the flagship innovations trumpeted by city leaders in Bristol because it is taking place on council-owned land that is being developed by Ikea with innovative building techniques, with the homes and apartments built from ‘flatpacks’.
