AN outline planning proposal to build 46 new homes in Sudbrook has been approved by Monmouthshire County Council’s (MCC) planning committee.

The homes, which include five affordable houses, will be built on a brownfield site known as the old shipyard, situated at the termination of Sudbrook Road in the village of Sudbrook.

The old shipyard measures just under a hectare and has been used in the past for a variety of industrial and waste management uses.

The houses will be a variety of one, two, three and four bedrooms within a mix of two storey and 2.5 storey houses.

The proposal received criticism from Portskewett Community Council over the road into Sudbrook stating it was inadequate to take any extra traffic on an already congested road.

Councillor Jim Higginson welcomed the plans. He said: “There’s traffic up and down that road anyway. There used to be a factory in the area so I don’t see personally how this will have an impact on traffic volume that has been known there in the past.”

Councillors voiced their disappointment that only five of the homes at the site would be affordable.

The planning committee met yesterday (4th August) to approve the outline planning permission.

Outline planning permission seeks to establish whether or not a scale and nature of a development would be successful to a local planning authority.

Further details of the development will need to be submitted to and approved by MCC before work on the site can start.