Turner Garden Gateway
Over a series of workshops and a Lockleaze Housing Festival in 2019 we asked people about the kind of housing they wanted to see.
With the help of Barefoot Architects, and with the promise of a Community Land Transfer from Bristol City Council, local residents co-designed the buildings that would be built on two parcels of land either side of the Turner Gardens access road on Constable Road.
In 2021 we submitted a full planning application for 19 affordable homes at the site. A link to the planning application is available here.
The scheme was agreed at the end of June 2022 and the summer of 2025, we gained final planning permission for the site. That’s how slowly the planning process turns. We’ve had to raise a lot of housing grants to make sure the design reflected community needs, and to transfer the land from the Council.
It also became clear that without more grant funding and in a volatile housing market, LNT wouldn’t be able to deliver the project ourselves. Therefore, like other schemes in Southmead and Lawrence Weston, LNT trustees finally decided in July 2024 that we would seek a Housing Association to deliver the project. The most important thing is to get those community-led homes built.
Thanks to Abri Housing Association, Bristol City Council and many other experts, partners and supporters, we are now able to say that 18 new homes will be built on Constable Road later in 2026. They will all be social housing, and the Lockleaze Local Lettings Policy will apply to all the homes. And they were all designed by our community.
Turner Gardens Garage Site
We are also aiming to build a smaller set of homes with the help of house builders Ecomotive/ Snug Homes, on the site of the now demolished Turner Gardens Garages. In late 2025 we got planning permission for these homes, and we now have three years to find the funding to get them built. Again, they will be social housing for our Lockleaze community.
You can read more about how these developments came about here.