![]() Instead, the council is considering a cheaper alternative using virtual reality technology, which would be accessible to more people. Now, city council housing cabinet member Paul Smith has announced the proposal has been abandoned. ![]() The cost also became a contentious issue after it was announced at a meeting of the board last week, with the bulk of the money having to be spent converting the property back to modern standards afterwards if the idea was given the go-ahead. The idea was mooted as part of the Homes For Heroes 100 celebrations, marking the centenary of the Addison Act which led to the first council estates in the aftermath of the First World War.īut it came under fire from Bristol Homes Board members concerned it would deny a house to a family on the waiting list. The house in Briar Way, Hillfields, was identified in housing records as the first in Bristol to have council tenants.īut the plan to return it to the condition it was in after being built in July 1920, as a temporary museum piece, was abandoned after the £60,000 cost was deemed too high. ![]() This house in Briar Way, was Bristol's first to be let to a council tenant ![]() PLANS to turn one of Bristol’s first ever council houses back to its original 1920 condition have been scrapped. ![]()
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