Southmead Residents are over the moon today because their proposal for one hundred and twenty new homes has been given the green light. Residents cheered as they watched, online, Bristol City Council’s virtual planning committee give the go ahead for one of the largest community led housing projects in the country. The project had been led […]
We are thrilled to announce that the Arnside and Glencoyne Regeneration Team came runners up at the Royal Town Planning Institute South West Branch Awards on January 20th 2020. They received a ‘Highly Commended’ for ‘Excellence in Other Planning Work’. The Judge’s report detailed that “Particularly impressive is the nature and degree of community involvement”. […]
I was born in Southmead and have lived here all of my 62 years. I was the youngest of 7 children and when my Dad died I was just 2 years old. My mother could no longer afford to live in the private house on Southmead Road, where I was born, so we moved into […]
You may have heard that the regeneration of Glencoyne Square is led by Southmead Residents, not by private developers. It is a Community Led housing scheme. So, what does that actually mean? Community Led Housing West have now produced a video to describe what exactly Community Led Housing is. It answers some of our common […]
