Decision details

Prisoners Building Homes (PBH) unlocks land to deliver affordable, high-quality, low carbon, eco-friendly, sustainable homes nationally.
PBH creates job opportunities for serving prisoners and prison leavers to enable them to turn their lives around and reduce the cycle of reoffending
PBH started out as a pilot scheme in South West England. Funded by five Police and Crime Commissioners and the One Public Estate programme, which is managed by the Cabinet Office, the Local Government Association, and the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Bristol City Council is already working with PBH on a number of Temporary Accommodation and Supported Housing Projects the first of which will complete later in 2024 and will provide 6 self contained temporary accommodation homes to assist in addressing our TA requirements.
PBH is able to offer support and funding to the value of £10k per home for pre development costs to derisk and bring forward sites.

To agree that officers can make an application to Prisoners Building Homes for support to derisk small sites for the delivery of Temporary Accommodation and Supported Housing.

Option 1 - BCC could cover the costs and carry out the derisking in house. However, capacity of staff is constrained and resources for derisking sites are limited.