YTL Developments has submitted a reserved matters application for the first phase of its £800m Bristol Filton Airfield scheme.
The Malaysian conglomerate will seek to deliver 278 homes in the first phase of its regeneration of the North Bristol neighbourhood, which will be called Brabazon, named after the first commercial airliner pioneered at the airfield.
The 350-acre airfield is one of the most significant brownfield sites outside the capital.
The reserved matters application has been submitted almost four years after YTL bought the site, following outline planning for 2,675 homes and 62 acres of commercial space submitted in 2017.
Pending planning permission, development on the first phase is expected to begin in summer 2019, with the first homes on the market in 2020.
The residential portion comprises 127 two to four-bedroom houses and 151 one and two-bedroom apartments. It includes 16% affordable home provision, with a combination of social rent and shared ownership tenures available.
The scheme, which was designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, will also include a public square. Ferguson Mann Architects will restore the Grade I listed aircraft hangar 16U, which will open onto the square.
Sebastian Lyon, technical director of development at YTL Developments, said: “Brabazon will be a thriving new neighbourhood for Bristol on the site of a historic local landmark.”
Filton Airfield was previously home to the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and the Hurricanes and Spitfire in the Second World War. It played a large part in the design and building of Concorde and has been called the birthplace of British aviation.
In 2012 BAE Systems deemed the site no longer viable and closed it. Shortly after, Bridgehouse Capital agreed a £120m deal to develop the site with BAE. This fell through in April 2014, and YTL picked up the site, which was marketed at £70m by Alder King, at the end of 2015.
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