Up to 1000 homes, many of them social housing, are to be provided on a disused steelworks in south Wales.
A consortium of developers last week signed an agreement with Anglo-Dutch steel company Corus – formerly British Steel – to redevelop around 600 acres at Llanwern in Newport. The sale of the land will allow a £750m redevelopment programme to begin.

The redevelopment is expected to last for at least 10 years.

The scheme is set to be the largest regeneration project in Wales since the project at Cardiff Bay. Besides housing, it will include industrial units, a primary school and a range of sports and leisure facilities.

However, work will not start on the site for a further two years, as a large amount of decontamination work is yet to be carried out.

A spokesman for lead developer Broadhall Hampton said that because of this, the environmental audit of the area would need to be carried out before housing figures were finalised.

However, he confirmed that the development would be “across the range of housing”.

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Housing Today