Work has finally begun on the last plots of wasteland left over from the closure of South Bristol biggest tobacco factory - with developments that will provide jobs and homes for local people.
Housing association Curo is starting work to build 70 new affordable homes at Imperial Park, on a plot of land between the new Aldi and the entrance to the retail park. And work is already underway to build an 80-room nursing home on the other half of that plot, on the land next to the Aldi car park.
The developments represent the final part of the redevelopment of the huge Imperial Tobacco factory and headquarters which was built in the late 1960s and finally opened in 1974 as Wills Imperial Tobacco Factory, as the company relocated from all the factories in Bedminster and Ashton Gate to the new site on the edge of Hartcliffe.
