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the working plan
Clark Street: shaped together.
A small, locally rooted co-housing pilot from St Jude's Forum neighbours, exploring well-designed, affordable homes and shared spaces at a modest, human scale. People first, paperwork second.
Plans & drawings
A look at the Clark Street proposals, from the existing site to the proposed co-housing, pocket park and elevations. Click any thumbnail to magnify it; inside the viewer use the arrows (or your keyboard's left/right keys) to move between drawings.
What neighbours have said
This site links straight to the formal planning record so you can read residents' own words. Neighbours have written to Bristol City Council both supporting and objecting to the Clark Street application (ref 26/10855/P), their comments are published in full on the council's planning portal.
Read what neighbours told the council →
Comments open in the official Bristol City Council planning portal. We link to the source rather than reproduce residents' words here.
Why affordable homes matter here
Affordability is a big part of why this pilot exists. Bristol is now England's least affordable city to rent in, having overtaken Greater London. The latest Office for National Statistics figures, covering 2024, put the average rent at 45% of the average local salary, against 42% in Greater London. For many neighbours that means months of income each year going on rent alone.
Well-designed, genuinely affordable homes at a human scale are one practical response, and that is exactly what the Clark Street pilot is exploring.