Our strategic priorities for Bristol focus on providing secure future homes, jobs and quality places, with improved connectivity and protected green spaces. Goram Homes will concentrate on areas where communities are experiencing long-term deprivation, and all its developments will address the climate and ecological emergencies at every step.
Goram Homes was launched to deliver a vision. It’s a housing company with a mission to accelerate home-building across the city and beyond. It’s Bristol-based and has a pipeline of around 3,000 homes which it will build in phases over the coming years, half of which will be affordable housing for social rent and shared ownership.
Goram Homes is currently in construction on two of its key sites:
Planning consent has been granted for Dovercourt Road in Lockleaze and New Fosseway Road in Hengrove.
Goram Homes works in partnership with Bristol City Council and the private sector to build sustainable, affordable homes that create communities, respect the environment and contribute to the local economy.
Alongside development partners, Bristol City Council and local residents, it aims to build homes that transform where and how people live, working with developers, architects and organisations to make a positive impact on our city and help communities thrive.
It aims to exceed policy requirements for affordable housing on all its developments. Currently around half of the homes it plans to build will be for social rent and shared ownership homes.
It also supports communities wherever it builds. This includes projects like the One Lockleaze Skills Academy, which is kickstarting careers in construction for people who are unemployed or earning below the minimum wage.
Strategic Alignments
To ensure regeneration is values led the Western Harbour plans sit within wider strategic aims including the One City Economic Recovery and Renewal Plan. This should focus public policy, action and the delivery of place change that works for all.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) alignments include: 11.3, 17.3
One Lockleaze
Goram Homes is building 268 sustainable new homes in partnership with Vistry Group. Partnerships on this brownfield site in north Bristol, of which 55 per cent will be affordable housing.
Central to the development will be a community park, which will form a wildlife corridor from the neighbouring historic Stoke Park to Concorde Way. The mixed-tenure development will create a balanced community and continue the transformation of Lockleaze.
Hengrove Park
Goram Homes is has started building at Hengrove Park, a development that will create a new community of 1,435 new homes for south Bristol.
The first phase, Hengrove Bookends is in construction and will create 53 council-owned apartments for social rent and shared ownership.
The wider Hengrove Park development, which has outline planning consent, will be built in phases over the next seven to ten years. At the centre will be a high-quality, 22-hectare public park, that’s around the size of 30 football pitches. Plans also include a new community centre, sports pavilion, Scout hut, commercial and office space, education space and more.
Goram Homes has reserved matters planning consent for two more sites and aims to start construction here in spring/summer 2024.
Find out more about Goram Homes’ plans and its priority sites for delivery in its 2024 Business Plan.
Goram Homes is interested in hearing from developers looking to work in partnership to build new homes, and landowners or a community-led organisations interested in creating a three-way joint venture.
Contact Development Director, Christiana Makariou christiana.makariou@goramhomes.co.uk
