Over the next nine weeks, government planning inspectors will publicly review Bristol’s ambitious proposal to build 35,000 new homes by 2040. The Bristol City Council’s Local Plan outlines locations for these homes, alongside jobs and essential infrastructure like roads, public transport, schools, GP surgeries, shops, leisure facilities, and open spaces.
The plan projects 34,650 homes—an average of 1,925 annually—with at least 12,000 designated as affordable. Most construction will focus on brownfield sites in central areas such as Broadmead, Western Harbour, Temple Quarter, and Frome Gateway in St Jude’s. However, some greenbelt land in Brislington, Bishopsworth, and the planned Longmoor Village near Ashton Vale will also be developed. Even with this scale of growth, the extensive document acknowledges that Bristol’s housing demand will still fall short.
Approved by the Bristol City Council in October 2023, the plan introduces a range of policies to shape the city’s expansion. These include ensuring new housing estates are near transport links, prioritizing energy efficiency, limiting student housing concentrations, reserving space for community use and allotments, requiring public toilets in shops, providing affordable workspaces, banning artificial grass, and preventing clusters of three or more takeaways.
The public examination, led by the Planning Inspectorate, begins Tuesday, February 25, at M Shed, with further details available online.
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