{"id":471090,"date":"2025-10-03T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471090\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:41:13","slug":"bdp-turns-disused-garages-into-social-housing-in-bristol-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471090\/","title":{"rendered":"BDP turns disused garages into social housing in Bristol | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gap<\/p>\n

A scheme designed by BDP has regenerated a council-owned, disused garage plot into social housing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The nine one-bedroom, two-storey homes on Bell Close, Horfield were built using modern methods of construction (MMC), with factory-made panels used to create the external walls of the homes.<\/p>\n

The scheme was commissioned and funded by Bristol City Council and delivered by contractor Beard and structural insulated panel specialist Etopia.<\/p>\n

All the homes have low energy lighting, high levels of insulation, minimal heating requirements and renewable energy generated by solar PV panels and air source heat pumps.<\/p>\n

Their layout includes an open-plan kitchen-living area and a bathroom on the ground floor, with a bedroom and storage on the first floor.<\/p>\n

\"Gap<\/p>\n

The installation of large windows aims to maximise natural light, while BDP says the entrance to each property has been designed to promote a \u201cfront porch culture\u201d with green space and outdoor seating to \u201cencourage social interaction and community cohesion\u201d.<\/p>\n

Barry Parsons, chair of the homes and housing delivery committee at Bristol City Council, said: \u201cUsing innovation and MMC, the Gap House concept has allowed us to build vital homes on a difficult site with limited access\u201d.<\/p>\n

BDP originally showcased its \u201cgap house\u201d concept design at the Housing Festival Expo in Bristol in 2018 as a proposed way of helping to address the affordable housing shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scheme designed by BDP has regenerated a council-owned, disused garage plot into social housing.\u00a0 The nine one-bedroom,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-471090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115310290429821323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}