Thousands of homes in new suburb dubbed ‘Eco-tech village’![\"North](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_TCBR101225EcoVillageBRI_03JPG.jpg\")
North Lyde Eco Tech Village will extend the urban area of Bristol to the north of the M4 for the first time. It will be created on what is currently, in 2025, Green Belt land inside a triangle formed by the M4, Westerleigh Road and the railway line spur from Yate. Thousands of homes, an extension to the Bristol & Bath Science Park, a new school and areas of green spaces will be created.(Image: South Gloucestershire Council)<\/p>\n
The next big extension to the suburban area of Bristol has taken another step forward, with housing association and social enterprise Places for People securing land on the edge of the city that it says it wants to build more than 2,000 new homes on.<\/p>\n
Places for People said it has signed deals with landowners who own vast swathes of the countryside to the north and east of Lyde Green, and next year will begin to outline how and when it wants to build a total of 2,050 new homes on it.<\/p>\n
The development looks set to be the first extension of Bristol\u2019s wider urban area that goes north of the M4. Until now, the expansion of the city into South Gloucestershire<\/a>, with developments like Emersons Green and Lyde Green, have been contained by the M4 as a boundary and the former railway line that\u2019s now The Dramway, to the east.<\/p>\n But the new 2025 South Gloucestershire Local Plan<\/a>, which this autumn was submitted to the Government\u2019s Planning Inspector for approval, creates something called \u2018the North Lyde eco-tech village\u2019, with a huge triangle-shaped area north of the M4 and south of Westerleigh Road, which will be transformed with thousands of new homes, a new school and an extension of the Bristol and Bath<\/a> Science Park.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Eight major housing developments set to transform South Gloucestershire<\/a>READ MORE: Work to build Bristol’s biggest new suburb is completed after 11 years<\/a><\/p>\n Options on much of that land, in a \u2018secured subject to planning\u2019 deal, have been obtained by Places for People, who said it would represent \u2018one of the region\u2019s most significant mixed-use opportunities\u2019.<\/p>\n Places for People said it would deliver more than the 30 per cent affordable homes requirement. \u201cThis is an important opportunity to plan a new neighbourhood carefully and responsibly, with people and place at its heart,\u201d said Andrew Usher, PfP\u2019s group managing director of developments.<\/p>\n \u201cBy working with local residents, the council, and other local groups, we want to create a place that feels connected to its surroundings with well-designed homes, green spaces, safe walking and cycling routes, and the facilities communities rely on.<\/p>\n \u201cOur focus is on long-term stewardship and doing things properly, so the new neighbourhood adds value to the wider area for many years to come.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no delivery partner quite like us. Our unique social enterprise model enables us to deliver homes at the pace and scale required, while ensuring long-term value for communities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The \u2018Ecotech village\u2019 would see a large technology and science park, 2,050 new homes, extra care accommodation – an elderly care home or sheltered housing site, green spaces and a new primary school.<\/p>\n Places for People have gone into partnership with a development firm called St Congar – which was set up more than 20 years ago by Miff Chichester and named after the saint who gave Congresbury its name – where Mr Chichester is from.<\/p>\n \u201cNorth of Lyde Green sits at the heart of one of the South West\u2019s most dynamic growth corridors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are proud to have brought this opportunity forward and to see it underpinned by institutional investment and a proven delivery partner in Places for People.<\/p>\n \u201cIt reflects the kind of strategic land opportunity we specialise in by unlocking complex sites, through collaboration and long-term vision, seeking to deliver sustainable, deliverable developments of similar ambition,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of homes in new suburb dubbed ‘Eco-tech village’North Lyde Eco Tech Village will extend the urban area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,64694,6334,9730,10299,10302,16,15,14915],"class_list":{"0":"post-625992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-emersons-green","10":"tag-housing-crisis","11":"tag-m4-motorway","12":"tag-south-gloucestershire","13":"tag-south-gloucestershire-council","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-yate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115700250451908750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625992","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=625992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Andrew](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_TCBR101225EcoVillageBRI.jpg\")
Andrew Usher, Places for People\u2019s group managing director of developments.(Image: Places for People)<\/p>\n![\"North](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_TCBR101225EcoVillageBRI_02JPG.jpg\")
North Lyde Eco Tech Village will extend the urban area of Bristol to the north of the M4 for the first time. It will be created on what is currently, in 2025, Green Belt land inside a triangle formed by the M4, Westerleigh Road and the railway line spur from Yate. Thousands of homes, an extension to the Bristol & Bath Science Park, a new school and areas of green spaces will be created.(Image: Google Earth)<\/p>\n