One of Bristol’s biggest providers of affordable housing has defended its decision to build only 75 affordable homes in a huge inner city development and build the rest for the open market.
Places for People, which describes itself as one of the country’s ‘leading affordable homes-led placemakers’, is so far only meeting the minimum 20 per cent affordable homes requirement in its proposals for the big Dove Lane site close to the bottom of the M32 in St Pauls.
The former paper factory next to St Pauls Leisure Centre was cleared more than a decade ago and has laid empty and unused ever since, with a series of grand plans over the years never coming to fruition.
