A Bristol company is offering people the chance to help design their own tiny one-person homes.

Last year Bristol City Council went against its own rules to allow three tiny houses to be built in Hillfields to help alleviate its housing shortage.

Bristol's own planning policy says new single-occupier dwellings should not be built even if they meet national housing standards.

But a planning committee ignored the policy to approve plans for the tiny home to be built in the garden of a traditional terraced property in the city's Hillfields area.

At the meeting in January developer Ecomotive was granted planning permission for its Snug homes at 225 Forest Road.

The three homes will be created by converting the existing two-storey Victorian house into two flats and putting a prefabricated box home in the rear garden.

Each home will have its own little grass area, and two of them will have a small patio as well.

Pictures taken on Friday (March 6) show that work has been taking place to prepare the site for the Snug development.

The part-finished modules are delivered to site for residents to complete themselves, according to the Ecomotive website.

The firm said it had leased a small site in Lockleaze to create a pop-up fabrication and training space for its modular self-build Snug homes.

The Snug homes website is now asking for people interested in one of these properties to get in touch and join the Snug community.

This developer doesn't just want to see smaller houses, but a new way of building them.

Their idea is to make homes in a modular way where a core structure would be made in a factory by skilled craftspeople and then it would be up to the customer to choose a custom-build or self-finish.

The custom-build would mean a person chose their own internal and external finishing options, and when the modules are taken to the site a specialist team constructs them. Or, self-finish where the modules are delivered but the customer finishes them off.

Its easy to create terraces or apartment blocks by stacking the modules, and they lend themselves well to more collective ways of living, such as cohousing, where homes can be smaller because people also have access to shared living spaces.

See the article here:
Would you be interested in living in one of these tiny one-person houses? - Bristol Post

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March 6, 2020 at 7:43 pm by Mr HomeBuilder
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