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Up to 6,500 new homes could now be built at Brabazon
The developers who want to create the new neighbourhood of Brabazon on the former Filton Airfield have switched tack, with an “urban destination” the new plan rather than the previous idea of suburbia.
YTL, the Malaysian-owned company behind the development which could include an arena within former aircraft hangars, says that the updated masterplan “is designed to ensure instead that it becomes a new urban destination that lives up to the legacy of the former airfield’s pioneering past, driving local prosperity for the next generation”.
The new plans include more homes as well as space to support the growth of nearby companies.
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Up to 6,500 new homes could be built at Brabazon, but YTL bosses stress that this number would only be reached “should the frequency and capacity of public transport services and active travel routes (e.g. cycle paths) increase sufficiently to accommodate additional homes”.
Proposals also include plans for the largest new urban public park in the South West for 50 years, the 15-acres Brabazon Park – equivalent in size to Castle Park.
Planning permission has already been granted to YTL Developments to develop Brabazon into a new community and to build a 17,000-capacity arena within Brabazon Hangars – image: YTL Developments
YTL Developments planning & development director, Seb Loyn, said that “it is not enough to just build homes”.
“If we are to tackle the climate crisis, we need to make sure we build more sustainable homes in the right places.
“This means on brownfield land along existing transport corridors like at Brabazon, where public transport connections and active travel routes provide a genuine alternative to car-dependent lifestyles.
“Brabazon sits on major public transport corridors, including the M1 metrobus route and Concorde Way cycle path. A train service from the new rail station being built at Brabazon will connect to Bristol Temple Meads in less than 15 minutes when operational in 2023.”
YTL have plans for 1000 new affordable homes within a ’15-minute neighbourhood’, where every daily need or essential service is less than a 15-minute walk or bike ride away – image: YTL Developments
Loyn added: “Nowhere in the West of England is better placed to build the new homes, offices, schools and community facilities we need, and to do so in a way that is environmentally and economically sustainable.
“Crucially, additional homes and offices will only be built as and when improved public transport connections come forward.
“The proposals submitted today have a series of checks and balance in place to ensure that increased density can only be delivered at the same time as the additional public transport needed to support it.”
Main image: YTL Developments
Read more: £2.7m in public money sought for transport measures around Brabazon development
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