Revised plans revealed for huge Bristol scheme

Updated plans for a new neighbourhood earmarked for Bristol’s historic former Filton Airfield have been submitted. The scheme is forecast to create more than £5bn of added economic value, with sufficient commercial space to support about 30,000 jobs.YTL Developments is behind the application for Brabazon having originally announced its intention revise the proposals in 2021.Since then, the team has spent months meeting with people and businesses in the area, as well as charities, community groups and public bodies, to create a shared vision for the district.It has been developed in collaboration with Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) Studios.YTL already has planning permission – granted in 2018 – to develop Brabazon into a community. In 2020, it also received consent to reimagine the iconic Brabazon Hangars – where every UK Concorde was built – into a 17,000-capacity arena for Bristol.However, since then the housing crisis and climate emergency have become more acute, while there is also a greater imperative to ‘level-up’ every region of the UK following the Covid-19 pandemic.As the largest area of brownfield land in the South West, it is believed that Brabazon is “perfectly placed to help Bristol and the wider region tackle the challenges we all face”.Yet under the current consented masterplan, Brabazon would remain a suburban location. The updated scheme is designed to ensure that it becomes an urban destination that lives up to the legacy of the former Airfield’s past, driving local prosperity for the next generation.Lined up now is more green space, jobs and homes.Economically, the revised masterplan for Brabazon is forecast to create more than £5bn of added economic value, with sufficient commercial space to support more than 30,000 jobs.Socially, it represents a “huge investment” in the community that “changed the world when it built Concorde”, with three new schools, a health centre, community facilities and more than 86 acres of public green spaces, including the largest new urban park in the South West for 50 years.