Work on building the first batch of new homes on the former Filton Airfield is set to begin before the end of the year after South Gloucestershire Council approved the first ‘reserved matters’ planning application to come forward for the massive 143ha (354 acre) site. Outline permission for development of the site as a whole was granted in 2015, with
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The first major construction contract to transform the historic former Filton Airfield into a thriving new neighbourhood has been awarded to a West Country firm Vertase FLI, based in Portishead.
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A ceremony has been held to mark the start of construction on the first homes at Brabazon, the new neighbourhood being built by YTL Developments on the site of the former Filton Airfield.
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YTL Developments have ‘topped out’ the first new homes at Brabazon on the former Filton Airfield, meaning the first roofs have been completed. The tops of buildings in the first phase of the 2,600-home development can now be glimpsed when travelling along Hayes Way.
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The developer behind the huge new mixed-use Brabazon development on the former Filton Airfield is now inviting sales enquiries for the first new homes on the site, which are expected to become available in early 2021.
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The need to cater for a massive increase in expected demand for secondary school places in the Bristol North Fringe over the coming years looks set to see the building of a brand new school, the extensive redevelopment of an existing school and an increase in the intake of a third.
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The firm behind the redevelopment of the former Filton Airfield has announced its intention to submit a revised masterplan that could allow the number of homes built on the site to be increased from the currently approved 2,675 to as many as 6,500. The uplift would be achieved by increasing the proportion of apartment blocks within the mix of property types to be built…
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A new masterplan submitted by YTL, the firm behind the redevelopment of the former Filton Airfield, attempts to show how the number of new homes being built on the site could be increased from the currently approved 2,675 to as many as 6,500. This would be achieved by building apartment blocks with heights up to 18 storeys (and for two buildings up to 30 storeys).
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Hangar 16U – a Grade II listed aircraft hangar on the former Filton Airfield site – is set to be restored as a brand-new public library, café, gym and social centre, according to new plans unveiled by YTL Developments. South Gloucestershire Council has submitted a bid for £5.1 million of aid from the government’s Levelling Up Fund to support the project.
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YTL Developments has been granted planning permission for the next phase of new homes at Brabazon, the new neighbourhood for Bristol taking shape on the site of the historic former Filton Airfield. Consisting of 339 dwellings, the second residential phase will be built on Parcel E1, which lies to the east of the currently under-construction Phase 1, near Blenheim Roundabout.
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