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Tristan Cork

Work on South Bristol's biggest housing development finally begins

South Bristol Bristol Goram Homes Hengrove Park Bristol City Council

The first phase of a huge project to build 1,430 new homes in South Bristol is underway - with work starting on the first 53 this week.

The massive Hengrove Park development site, on the former Whitchurch Airfield between Hartcliffe and Hengrove, has been handed by Bristol City Council to the council-owned housebuilding company Goram Homes. They said that eventually at least half of the 1,430 new homes built there will be classed as ‘affordable’.

The first 53 in phase one will all be designated as ‘affordable’ in planning terms, with 27 available for social rent, and the other 26 available for shared ownership. And Goram Homes has now named The Hill Group as the housebuilder that will be building the homes.

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