Bristol: A major hub for innovation and business, a leading centre for creative industries, with world-class universities and a growing, vibrant population.
Bristol is the 2nd most innovative city in the UK (Paymentsense) 
Home to two world-leading universities 
Bristol named the UK's 3rd largest business hub (The Business Magazine) 
Boasts a population of nearly 500,000 
Avonmouth is at the centre of Bristol’s industrial, warehousing, energy generation and recycling, and new value-adding ‘circular economy’ activities.
The area is looking to attract more advanced manufacturing and engineering companies on a ‘net zero’ model, and to expand its ‘circular economy’ activities.
At the same time the logistics sector will continue to grow, but, as connectivity and infrastructure improves this will be balanced with manufacturing and processing, a focus on emerging opportunities in food, construction, aerospace and other advanced engineering. All this will offer higher quality jobs to benefit local communities. Find out more
Bristol City Council is working with local residents, businesses, landowners, developers and other stakeholders to guide to the long-term regeneration of central Bristol. Endorsed by Council Cabinet in December 2023, a City Centre Development and Delivery Plan (DDP) has been prepared to act as a “material consideration” in determining planning applications and a guide to the Council’s future investment decisions. The plan identifies what needs to be done to:
The plan is in two parts, and can be found on the planning pages of Bristol City Council’s website at Supplementary planning documents, practice notes and other planning guidance (bristol.gov.uk).
Bristol Temple Quarter will transform 135 hectares of land in the centre of Bristol over the next 25 years. The regeneration programme will create at least 10,000 new homes, over 22,000 jobs and bring a £1.6bn boost to the regional economy each year.
At the heart of the area, the Grade 1 listed Bristol Temple Meads station will be renewed, with new entrances, improved passenger facilities, and new development nearby to create a world-class welcome to the city-region.
At St Philip’s Marsh, there is an opportunity to deliver nationally significant numbers of new homes and employment opportunities, alongside the infrastructure needed to create high-quality living.
The University of Bristol’s £500m investment into its new Enterprise Campus is already catalysing change in the area, with a focus on digital and technologies, a key government growth sector.
For further information, please visit: Bristol Temple Quarter
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Bristol City Council is working in partnership with the local community to guide and shape the long-term transformation of the land either side of the River Frome in St Jude’s, known as Frome Gateway, located just to the north of the Cabot Circus regional shopping centre.
Our ambition is for Frome Gateway to become an exemplar neighbourhood recognised for high-quality and sustainable design and construction, its unique identity and community spirit, and its ability to support communities to live healthy and sustainable lifestyles. We want the regeneration of Frome Gateway to be a bold and ambitious response to the climate and ecological emergencies and are exploring this as a priority design theme.
To do this, the Council endorsed a Regeneration Framework for this 15 hectare with a number of ambitious targets, including 1000 new homes and 22000 sq m of new employment space. For further information please visit Frome Gateway.
Bristol City Council is delivering over 600 new homes in the next five years, with a long-term plan for further development. Through Goram Homes, the Council is working with developers to accelerate housing delivery and is exploring establishing a council-owned Registered Provider to improve temporary accommodation provision.
The recently adopted Homes for Bristol Interim Affordable Housing Delivery Plan reinforces the city’s commitment to affordable housing and outlines a strategy to address key challenges. The plan focuses on:
This two-year plan provides a framework for future policy and funding changes, ensuring continued progress in delivering new affordable homes.
For more information, please visit www.bristol.gov.uk.
Bristol has a growing population and need to provide more housing in sustainable urban locations. At the same time we face strong demand for industrial and employment space, and vacancy levels for industrial across the city are low. Bristol City Council is keen to explore new forms of development that enable us to use land as efficiently as possible to help us meet these challenges.
Industrial intensification and co-location with residential are under active consideration as delivery solutions. Given the emerging nature of this market, thinking is at an early stage. Bristol City Council is eager to hear from developers, funders and managing agents providing similar spaces in other locations or looking to enter the market, and who are interested in seeing such space come forward in Bristol.
Bristol’s harbourside has become one of the city’s best loved destinations – a place where people increasingly want to live, work and spend their leisure time.
The Western Harbour area provides an opportunity to unlock space for sustainable and affordable homes close to the city centre, create new jobs, provide sustainable travel options, create good-quality public space, and improve access to the water.
A draft masterplan for the area was published in February 2025. Comments from the public are now being considered, with the intention being for a draft to be put to Bristol City Council's Economy and Skills Committee for approval in Summer/Autumn 2025. For further information visit here: What's on the horizon for Bristol's Western Harbour?
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The Whitehouse St Framework was endorsed by Bristol City Council Cabinet in March 2023. The Framework sets out the vision for the regeneration of the area, informed by extensive engagement with the local community, and will guide and shape redevelopment proposals to support the transition to a genuinely mixed-use neighbourhood in Bedminster. New homes, employment floorspace (including industrial space) and community space will be delivered and help revitalise this area, support businesses on nearby East St and Bedminster Parade and facilitate the integration of the existing community with new residents and businesses moving into the area.
The regeneration of the Whitehouse Street will deliver:
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Temple Quarter is one of the UK’s leading regeneration and infrastructure development programmes. Home to financial and professional services, and creative hub.