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Homes First residents get ready to move into saved development
Bristol Post
|June 17, 2025
A FLAGSHIP Bristol “innovative housing” development that ran into such trouble two years ago that people who put down deposits got their money back and walked away, is back on track after the entire site was bought by two housing associations.
The purchase of all 185 homes on the troubled Bonnington Walk development in Lockleaze by housing associations GreenSquare and Bromford now mean that all of the homes will either be rented or sold as ‘affordable homes, and half of them will go to people from Lockleaze itself.
Local people who have managed to snap up one of the homes under a low-cost homeownership scheme are celebrating this week, and the first people to move in to the rented homes will begin getting the keys in the first week of July.
Amy Bishop will soon be one of Bonnington Walk's first residents, after snapping up one of the affordable to buy homes from GSA. “I am so excited to pick up the keys for my new home in Lockleaze, an up-and-coming area of Bristol which buyers like me are often priced out of,” she said.
This story is from the June 17, 2025 edition of Bristol Post.
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