About local homes, Local Estate Agents and Auctions, Accommodation - Guest Houses and Hotels, Home Swapping and Council Exchange, Student Accommodation, Homes Overseas, New Fishponds developments, Planning Permission and Applications in Greater Fishponds
If you are looking for student homes then visit our Students Page
Please visit the government advice website if you have problems paying your mortgage or seek other information i.e. planning, change of circumstances etc direct.gov.uk
Visit Bristol Council information page on housing bristol.gov.uk/nav/housing
Another website to visit regularly for updates generally is the BBC Property Site: bbc.co.uk/propertywatch
Homes for Sale and Rental Opportunities - Local Estate Agents and Property Auctions
haart.co.uk/branch/search-results.aspx?county=Bristol open until 10pm weekdays!
755 Fishponds Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3UP. Telephone: 01179 657566 email fishponds@haart.co.uk
77a North Street, Downend, Bristol, BS16 5SE. Tel 0117 957 4000 michaelnicholasestateagents.co.uk
Martin & Co. (for North East Bristol) 8 Regent Street, Kingswood, Bristol BS15 8JS.
Tel. 01179 352 148
Website: martinco.com/lettings-agents/bristol_north_east
D W Smith and Co. 54 High Street, Hanham, Bristol & South Glos BS15 3DR.
Contact Offices
Hanham - Tel: 0117 967 0900 or Downend - Tel: 0117 956 1336
Very informative local website website: youridealhome.co.uk
besleyhill.co.uk (Sales)
764/766 Fishponds Road, Fishponds BS16 3UA. Tel. 0117 9653162 email: fishponds@besleyhill.co.uk
10 Badminton Road, Downend BS16 6BQ. Tel: 0117 956 1234 email: downend@besleyhill.co.uk
maggsandallen-auctioneers.co.uk (Auctions)
Clifton based auctions and property Sales across Bristol & Bath
hollismorgan.co.uk
House & Co. Fishponds Office & Kingswood Office houseandco.co.uk
Connels Estate Agents connells.co.uk/buy/Fishponds or to rent connells.co.uk/rent/Fishponds
Taylors Estate Agents. Fishponds Office taylorsestateagents.co.uk
Commercial property in Bristol burstoncook.co.uk
Businesses and commercial property for sale christie.com
CJ Hole Estate Agent. Hanham Office cjhole.co.uk/branch/hanham
Search using Zoopla zoopla.co.uk
Using the website: Righmove.com (RM)
(lowest priced properties first, if you are looking to spend £300'000+ then please switch to Highest Price First)
(if you are looking to rent in the area then please click on to 'switch to rental' and choose Highest or Lowest Price First).
Fishponds/ Staple Hill homes for sale and for rent in Staple Hill & Fishponds(RM)
Speedwell and Kingswood homes for sale and for rent in Speedwell & Kingswood (RM)
Whitehall and Eastville homes for sale and for rent in St George & Eastville (RM)
Frenchay and Stapleton homes for sale and for rent in Stapleton & Frenchay (RM)
Beech House, Stapleton in Greater Fishponds
New Homes
Barratt Homes in Bristol: barratthomes.co.uk/Bristol
Linden Homes Bristol: gallifordtryhomes.co.uk/linden-homes/developments/bristol
Bovis Homes: bovishomes.co.uk New development in the Greater Fishponds area is named The Hollies and next to the Hollies is Snowberry Gardens
Looking for home on the Habourside in Central Bristol.. harbourside.co.uk
Great Western Dockyard by the SS Great Britain from Linden Homes
Security Products
PJB Security Products
We are a family run business, we have over the last fourteen years been designing and manufacturing here in Fishponds our products, including Garage Defenders, Ground anchors for motorcycles, bikes etc, chains and padlocks, parking posts and universal hasps for sheds etc just to name but a few products! Please visit our website for full details: pjbsecurity.co.uk
25 Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3JF. Tel 01179 659240. Fax 01179 653263 info@pjbsecurity.co.uk
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Greater Fishponds has a good balance of private and local authority homes. The private streets have varying styles of homes whereas the local authority homes look fairly similar. But all are well built, have good sized gardens and most residents live in a neighbourly community.
Beechen Drive in Fishponds has the 1st council homes in Bristol.
The local authority homes in Fishponds were first started for people returning home after The First World War and a few years later more were added by local industry to house their workers. They were homes for hero's and homes to attract good workers; these are homes that were built to last! These houses have large back gardens and nice front gardens; most have two or three bedrooms upstairs, a bathroom, sometimes a toilet downstairs along with two living rooms and a kitchen. The private houses in the area date back to Victorian times and others are 1930's homes.
At the opposite end of the market there are homes in Stapleton which are over 500 years old, one was used by Oliver Cromwell in 1645 as a war office with General Fairfax before taking control of Bristol Castle. This area of Fishponds has been popular with kings since the Norman Conquest in 1066 and lots of the area was the Kings Forest.
Prices for houses in Greater Fishponds range between £130k in our breadline communities and up to £3m In Stapleton and Frenchay areas. However this is only a rough guide and flats vary accordingly 18th April 2011
Greater Fishponds is an area of more than 8 miles in circumference and it can be seen as a town within a city. There aren't many communities in the UK which can boast more diversity, choice, opportunities and variety than Fishponds. To compare districts of our community to other areas of Bristol is fairly simple... if Stapleton and Frenchay is Clifton and Redland, then Greenbank is St Andrews and Hillfields is Horfield. To buy a home near to Ashton Court in Clifton is expensive but to buy a home near to Oldbury Court Park in Frenchay means getting just as much for your money and you'll make a considerable saving while accessing the motorway is far easier. Explore Fishponds, look at all of your options; walk around Oldbury Court Park (comparable with Ashton Court and better than the Downs) and plan your lifestyle around your budget. If it's city life that you are looking for in a vibrant suburb then to buy a home in Greater Fishponds is a very good move; but be aware that some parts suffer from troublesome neighbours so ask a local agent for advise.
New developments in the area have popped up through the sale of land (mainly people's gardens and past community buildings). Two new estates are under construction where world war two prefab emergency homes were built. These new homes range in price between £165k - £240k and flats are also available. See below for details and if you are a first time buyer then ask about or visit the Home Buy link.
New development in the Hillfields & Speedwell area is named as The Hollies.
To choose a home in Greater Fishponds is a very good move, especially considering that we are next to Frenchay Common which is one of Bristol's best addresses along with Stapleton; we also have Oldbury Court Park which is one of Bristol's top three parks and Fishponds is less than 10 minutes drive from various countryside retreats.
In general, Fishponds and the wider area has a nice choice of pubs & restaurants and a full range of activities. Fishponds main road is one of 7 areas chosen in Bristol for a new flag ship bus route. There's new world class education facilities, shopping centre's all around the wider area; the area has safe access to cycle ways connecting to a safe and efficient cycling network, it's good for walking and we have a solid, friendly and prosperous community with good links to the M4, M5, M32, A37 plus we're just 20 minutes scenic drive in to Bath.
Accommodation - Guest Houses and Hotels
Greater Fishponds is well placed for some of the UK's most important industry and offices and for this reason we have several guest houses and hotels in and around the area. These include:
Gala Guest House. 479 Fishponds Road, Fishponds BS16 3AL. Tel. 0117 9653938
The Base Veggie B&B. 564 Fishponds Road, Fishponds BS16 3DD. Tel. 0117 9023456 thebase.vg
The Coach House. Bristol Road, Hambrook BS16 1RY. Tel. 0117 9566901 bristolcoachhouse.co.uk
Hambrook Grove Hotel. Bristol Road, Hambrook BS16 1RY. Tel: 0117 956 9770
Holiday Inn. Filton Road, Hambrook BS16 1QX. Tel. 08704 009014 holidayinn.com
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A fantastic charity that is here to help everyone, including people on low incomes and more.. Please go direct to their website here and read everything, there's a page for you here and people ready to help! england.shelter.org.uk
Home Swapping, Council Exchange and Rental
Bristol Council Site bristol.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/housing/council-housing/council-housing---tenancy-issues
Home Swapper homeswapper.co.uk
UK Home Swap ukhomeswap.co.uk
Gumtree for property in Bristol >> bristol.gumtree.com
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Fishponds is a very popular area for student accommodation and largely thanks to both the UWE campuses right here in Fishponds, with the Frenchay Campus accessible by walking through wonderful parks; easily reached by car and thanks to good public transport links. Also City of Bristol College's, Soundwell Centre and Brunel Centre are close to different parts of Fishponds offering 1000's of courses. Click here for college advice
As a student of the UWE, Your first point of contact should ideally be UWE Accommodation Services: uwe.ac.uk/accommodation, here they have a list of registered and vetted landlords so that your Health & Safety comes first; they also keep a list of agents uwestudentpad.co.uk and there's lots of UWE owned property on campuses as well: uwe.ac.uk/accommodation/options.shtml
Recommended for the Fishponds area is Marilon, everything is explained here: marilon.co.uk
The very historical and beautiful: UWE, St Matthias Campus, Fishponds
Greater Fishponds History: fishponds.org.uk/fishpondshistory.html
Spare rooms are usually advertised on Gumtree as well.. you'll find that a group of friends move in to a house together and one or two leave for various reasons before the contract year ends, or more often some would like to stay in a house for another contract year while others want to move on to a different part of Bristol, so their rooms are advertised as cheaply as possible by the rest of the house mates..
Gumtree for property in Bristol >> bristol.gumtree.com - Good luck!
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Looking to buy a place in the sun.. find inspiration from Channel 4 channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/a-place-in-the-sun
This website from their programme offers food for though in the Med.. iberianinternational.com
Right Move for overseas properties: rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property.html
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New and projected developments in Greater Fishponds
Blackberry Hill Hospital, Snowdon Road, Glenside & St Mathias Campuses, Parnall Site, Riverwood International.
Map by Google Maps http://maps.google.co.uk/maps
Homes and Communities - Blackberry Hill Hospital with Laundry Field off Manor Road
Meeting held at Stapleton Church and organised by the Snuff Mills Action Group (SMAG)
28th April 2011.
snuffmills.blogspot.com
Blackberry Hill hospital was purchased by the Homes and Communities Agency (H&CA) for around £5m in 2009. As part of their commitment to local people, H&CA ensure that wildlife and most heritage is protected and sustainable.
There are public footpaths included in the site, mainly in Laundry Field, these may need to be moved to a different location as part of the redevelopment once a development partner has been found. (Mark Logan of SMAG and the Greater Fishponds Partnership Planning Group (GFPPG) who chaired the meeting will ensure this is done properly, putting Fishponds first with his team. Visit fishpondsplanning.blogspot.com
Initially the Blackberry Hill site itself is a priority to redevelop in to sustainable living, taking down and replacing modern and dilapidated buildings and preserving listed and heritage buildings however possible. If homes are built on the Laundry Field site then (H&CA) will have to pay more money to the council as part of the agreement. There may be no development on Laundry Field.
There will be a public consultation later in the year where local people will have a far clearer idea of the plans and a process whereby local people we can share feedback.
From the SMAG meeting it is apparent that H&CA aren't 100% sure where their boundary ends, they may own some of the large trees on the site as well which have been looked after by the hospital for over 25 years that local residents know about.
H&CA are looking for an ethical development partner who will keep people involved in the process, liaison in the community. H&CA say they have a wealth of expertise locally and they'll ensure that development is in the interest of local people. A similar development by H&CA in the wider community is Hanham Hall hanhamhall.co.uk
Development partner will need to:
A) Explain what they'll offer the local community.
B) Address peoples concern's.
C) Detail what materials are going to be used.
D) Say how they will develop the site..
H&CA said that councils throughout the country have been impressed by their best practice methods.
Milestones: Exits and entrance may need tweaking.
The site is 21.5ish Acres which is made up as 12.9 Acres (Blackberry Hill Hospital) and 8.6 Acres (Laundry Field).
The SMAG may need to initially apply for village green status to stop H&CA from developing Laundry Field.
More information will be added soon including who's who.
The first video is Morrisons Expansion Plan area and the second video show the vacant Parnall Site (maybe homes..)
For a list of planning applications in Greater Fishponds visit:
planningonline.bristol.gov.uk/online-applications/search.do?action=advanced and select Greater Fishponds from the Neighbourhood Partnership drop-down menu or select the ward that you are interested in i.e. Hillfields, Frome Vale and Eastville.
