Image: Brabazon
YTL Developments has partnered with Bromford Flagship LiveWest (BFL) to enhance the delivery of high-quality affordable homes at Brabazon and the wider West Innovation Arc in the West of England, it has been announced.
YTL Developments is transforming one of the largest brownfield sites in the UK into Brabazon, a 450-acre new town north of Bristol that will eventually include 6,500 homes. The site is one of seven shortlisted by the government for New Town status, a designation expected to unlock thousands of homes and jobs alongside new transport and infrastructure.
Bristol Brabazon railway station is due to open this autumn, alongside a new m4 Metrobus service. The wider scheme is expected to support up to 30,000 jobs, along with 2,000 student accommodation beds, schools, community facilities and 86 acres of green space, including a 15-acre park and three-acre lake. The development will also house the YTL Live entertainment complex, featuring the 20,000-capacity Aviva Arena.
BFL, the UK’s largest provider of new affordable homes, delivers more than 3,000 homes annually and already manages around 10,000 affordable homes across South Gloucestershire, including in Patchway, Little Stoke and Filton.
Seb Loyn, director of planning and development at YTL Developments, said: “Working with the team at BFL is a great example of a partnership-led response
to national housing ambitions. Brabazon is a major new town of genuine scale and ambition.”
Robert Nettleton, chief executive officer at BFL (pictured), said: “Brabazon emonstrates what’s possible when ambition is matched
with the capacity to deliver at scale. Our partnership with YTL reflects the kind of collaboration needed to support delivery of the government’s 1.5 million homes target and enable long-term growth.”
Helen Godwin, mayor of the West of England, welcomed the partnership, saying: “We know that people want the right homes built in the right places, with the right services and connections, and that’s what we’re determined to help deliver – working with our local councils and developers like YTL and BFL.”
The partnership will also see both organisations invest in local skills development to build a construction workforce pipeline for the project.