West of England

West of England

Around 33,000 new homes were built between 1991-2001, and during the same period 10,000 affordable homes were made private through right to buy. 

Currently around 1300 affordable homes are built each year across the sub-region, made up of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset districts. This quota only meets a third of current demand, which looks set to remain high through increased job creation in the area (67,000 jobs created 1995-2001).
 
Sovereign Development Consortium is tackling this by delivering the largest affordable housing programme in the area. A quarter of all government funding for housing is channeled through SDC in the West of England.
 
This includes the entire affordable quota (see case study) at Harbourside in Bristol, redeveloping former industrial land at Kingswood (Sovereign and Solon), replacing problem garage sites with affordable homes (United at Lawrence Weston, Bristol), and regenerating the Barton Hill New Deal area with more than 100 affordable homes on seven different sites.
 
Sovereign also works under the Homeswest banner – a partnership of four landlords and four councils – to work together to compete for land sites on the open market.

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