Huge new expansion to Bristol beyond M4 takes step forward View 3 Images

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.

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.

The development looks set to be the first extension of Bristol’s wider urban area that goes north of the M4. Until now, the expansion of the city into South Gloucestershire , with developments like Emersons Green and Lyde Green, hav

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