Thousands of homes are being built in the area

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South Bristol is undergoing one of the city's biggest transformations, with thousands of homes planned for the area.

Taking place across many areas, more than 12,000 new homes are either being built or planned. A BristolLive investigation calculated that that there are 3,122 new homes currently being built in South Bristol and another 2,025 new homes that have been granted planning permission with work yet to get underway.

There are another 1,591 new homes south of the river that developers have begun pushing through the planning process, with council planners yet to make a decision on. And there are a further 5,555 new homes that have either been proposed by developers with plans revealed but not yet formally submitted to the planning authority, or are the subject of developer or council-led consultation about major regeneration projects.

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However, the South Bristol MP Karin Smyth has been calling for "someone to own the problem" of making sure there are enough GP surgeries, healthcare centres and schools.

Here are the developments where work is already in progress, or planning permission has been granted:

The early flagship of the 2016 Labour administration, a new estate of 133 homes is almost nearing completion on an old abandoned allotment site next to Ashton Vale. Most of the homes are now lived in, and around half are social housing.

The former Hartcliffe College campus was cleared to make way for 350 new homes and public space. A proportion of at least 30 per cent affordable housing was set for the development, which includes two, three and four-bedroom houses and one and two-bedroom apartments.

The former Somerfield headquarters at Hartcliffe has also been transformed into flats. Work is almost done now.

There are plans to demolish South Bristol’s last cinema and replace it with up to 350 new homes. The scheme would see most of the Hengrove Leisure Park, which includes Cineworld and Buzz Bingo and the huge car park, demolished and replaced by houses and apartment blocks.

The plans for Hengrove Park include 1,435 homes, of which 30 per cent will be affordable, a large public park as well as commercial, retail, education and community facilities at Hengrove Park.

As one of Bristol’s biggest housing developments, it received a £20million boost to speed it up. This came after Bristol City Council suffered a triple funding blow over the massive housing estate.

A small site in the heart of Knowle West, and one of several even smaller sites currently being built on. A total of 47 homes are being built there.

A total of 173 flat-pack Ikea homes are being built on Airport Road.

There will be 77 two-storey houses and 96 flats in four blocks of four storeys, along with 205 parking spaces and storage for 368 bicycles.

Work to build the new development that will create 107 new flats in a huge shared ownership scheme finally got underway in April after years of delays.

The development at the Old Brewery at the end of North Street in Ashton Gate was originally given planning permission before the pandemic, and since then has changed to be 100 per cent ‘affordable’. Of the 107 new homes being built there, 98 will be available to buy through a shared ownership scheme with housing association Abri, and the other nine will be rented through the council’s HomeChoice scheme at social rent levels.

The massive tower block with 152 affordable homes and on the banks of the River Avon is now nearly finished. The £50m scheme, will be made up of 112 for shared ownership homes and 40 for affordable rent.

The complex, located at the derelict former Esso garage in Bath Road by Totterdown Bridge, will be spread over four blocks up to 15-storeys high. It will also include office space and two basement floors for parking beneath the tallest tower.

A prominent site as the A38 climbs out of Bedminster from Parson Street into Bedminster Down. The 62 homes have been built quickly since the pandemic, and are nearly finished.

Controversial plans for 220 homes at a former railway depot in Ashton Gate were approved last year despite fears a “scary” shared cycle/pedestrian path is too narrow. Bristol city councillors granted permission for nine buildings between three and five storeys at Clanage Road, just off the Brunel Way flyover, after hearing half of the flats will be affordable.

But because the apartments will be only one- and two-bedroom, residents fear it will exclude many families from moving in and create “slums of the future” rather than a balanced community. Work is now underway.

A rare success by Bristol City Council saw developers told to come back with more affordable homes - which they did - and now work has started on this site opposite Arnos Vale cemetery.

Another prominent site, the last stage of the 210 flats in Arnos Vale being built there are now going up.

The controversial project will transform BS3 in what will be South Bristol's biggest regeneration project. The project will ultimately see five plots of land around Malago Road and the St Catherine’s Place shopping centre developed with up to 2,000 homes, with some of the buildings up to 16 storeys high.

Three of the five sites have already been given planning permission, one has been refused and council planners will decide on an application for the fifth site in the coming months of 2022. But work to transform two of the sites has already begun, and Bristol City Council has also begun two and a half years of work to link the 'Bedminster Green' area to the 'District Heat Network', and to improve the main road for cyclists, buses and pedestrians, paving the way literally for the influx of thousands of new people to the area of Bedminster between the railway line and the area's 'High Street'.

Work has been going on to build 67 affordable flats on this old industrial site next to Bedminster's climbing centre for more than a year now.

One of the longer term developments, the site between the old tobacco factory number 1 and Asda in Bedminster is rapidly taking shape now. A total of 156 homes are being built at the site.

The proposals are to build 40 homes at a light industrial site in Ashton Gate. These would include a six-storey building and seven three storey-townhouses.

The plans were initially knocked back by councillors for having a separate “poor door” entrance to the affordable flats, but were approved at the second attempt.

Argos disappeared from East Street and then a few months ago, the building itself went. From behind the hoardings a new development of 50 flats and shops is being built.

Part of the Northern Slopes between Bedminster and Knowle West, it has the best views in Bristol, and was once a council estate that was demolished just over ten years ago. The council gave itself planning permission to build 34 homes without even really telling anyone - controversially - earlier this year.

In April, Bristol City Council development control committee voted 5-4 to grant permission to demolish Castlemead House offices near Asda and build two houses and a five-storey block of 44 flats.

The plans for 46 homes in Southville were slammed as “a slap in the face” and “disappointing on so many fronts".

An industrial site between the end of Coronation Road and the New Cut River Avon. Permission was granted for 154 flats despite concerns over where the people would park their cars.