Marvin Rees recently visited our site in Lawrence Weston to meet families living in their newly built homes, and heard first-hand of their experience and how pleased they are with the Passivhaus homes. Additionally, he was taken on a tour of the final homes soon to be completed and spoke to many local residents about how the area has been uplifted since the new homes have been built.

The homes are part of the council’s New Build Housing Programme which began in 2014, regenerating brownfield sites, to provide new high-quality homes in key areas across the city. To date 25 new homes have been completed and occupied during the first phase of construction.

Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol said, “Building new houses and addressing the shortage of adequate accommodation remains one of the key priorities for my administration.

These new houses will provide 56 families with an affordable place to call home. Every property we build is important to the city, but we cannot do this alone, and we are working with a range of partners and organisations to build homes across the city, including a number of projects on council owned land.

As I have said before, it is important that we are not just building houses, we are building communities where people can feel they belong.

The best way to address the housing crisis we have in the city is to build more affordable housing, and we are continuing to look at every opportunity to accelerate our build programme. I look forward to work starting on our next batch of sites.”

The project at Lawrence Weston involves the construction of 23 dwellings built to Passivhaus standards, with 11 required to achieve Passivhaus certification, including 12 houses (mixture of one, two and three beds), nine bungalows (mixture of one and two beds) and two flats, together with related external works and drainage.