The Bill Dunster-designed low-carbon homes can be built on stilts over public spaces such as car parks
Organisers of the Bristol Housing Festival said they hoped 11 Zedpod homes will have been built over a cark park in the city and occupied in time for the next event in October this year.
Plans for the factory-built homes were submitted to the local council and have subsequently been validated.
Designed by architect Bill Dunster, Zedpod homes can exploit air rights in order to be built over spaces such as car parks. Zedpods said the homes are designed to be erected within 24 hours.
Once planning has been granted the 11 homes – comprising nine one-bedroom and two two-bedroom units – will be erected over a car park at Chalks Road, near St George Park.
BHF project director Jez Sweetland said: “I am delighted that this scheme is sufficiently developed that we have been able to submit for planning and are still on track to have these built and occupied before the next planned Bristol Housing Festival public exhibition in October 2019.
“In the context of the housing needs of the city it is important that we find creative ways to use land to test new ideas that can be scaled up to contribute to meeting our city’s housing needs.
“We also need to show that this can be done quickly as the existing need creates a demand for urgency,” Sweetland added.
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