Social housing plea for huge Fishponds development amid gentrification fears View 4 Images

A group of Fishponds residents are campaigning for developers to include more 'affordable' rentals in their plans to build thousands of new homes in the area . The development would be one of Bristol’s biggest urban regeneration sites, and Fishponds Neighbours for Social Housing is now calling on the developers to designate half of the new homes for social rent.

At the moment, three different developers are planning to build more than 2,200 new homes on three industrial sites just south of the Bristol-Bath cycle path between Fishponds and Hillfields. But so far, only 60 of them have been earmarked to be affordable social rent homes.

The residents behind the campaign, who have set up a petit

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