House builder Hill has broken ground at its planned 166-home harbourside neighbourhood at Baltic Wharf in Bristol.
Hill is delivering the project on Spike Island in joint venture with Goram Homes, the city council’s development arm.
The public–private partnership has been key to unlocking what was long viewed as one of Bristol’s most challenging central brownfield plots.
Andy Hill OBE, Hill’s founder and chief executive, said the JV would transform a previously closed-off corner of the harbourside into new public spaces and a fully accessible waterfront.
Goram Homes managing director Stephen Baker said the milestone proves that “even the most complex city-centre sites” can help tackle Bristol’s housing shortage when public and private partners pull in the same direction.
The new neighbourhood will deliver one- to three-bed flats, flexible commercial space, a café and landscaped areas.
It also forms part of wider plans to reconnect the River Avon with the Floating Harbour through new pedestrian routes and public realm.
Homes will come with green roofs, air-source heat pumps, solar PV and heavy cycle storage to push sustainability and cut car trips. The scheme sits a 10-minute cycle from Temple Meads and close to Metrobus links.
The project has been supported by a £2.4m Brownfield Land Release Fund grant through the government’s One Public Estate programme.
First homes are scheduled to complete from spring 2027.
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