Overcoming objections about road safety, wildlife management and environmental wasn't easy but everything is ready to go.
Work has started on a controversial modular housing development in Bristol.
A total of 185 homes are being built at the Bonnington Walk scheme in Lockleaze, including 64 council houses and 29 shared ownership properties.
The homes follow a deal between Bristol City Council and Legal & General Modular Homes, which will manufacture the buildings off-site from its factory in Sherburn-in-Elmet in Yorkshire.
The plans were approved in November 2020 despite objections over road safety, concerns over wildlife and loss of open space and allotments, which are being moved to nearby land off Dovercourt Road, according to BusinessLive’s sister site Bristol Live.
The Bristol Tree Forum also objected to hundreds of trees being felled, Bristol Live reported. A planning officer said 271 trees would be removed but 400 new ones planted on-site and 55 elsewhere.
Bristol City councilor Gill Kirk said at a council meeting in November the new affordable homes would "change the lives" of a lot of people and it supported the application.
The local authority's development control committee voted unanimously to grant permission subject to conditions and detailed contracts being finalized.
The proposed development includes a mixture of two-to-four-bedroom houses and one- and two-bedroom apartments, as well as new allotment patches, green open space, a new local community hub, and walking, cycling and road improvements.
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