PLANS to build 10 homes on land in Penallt were approved last Tuesday (1st December) by Monmouthshire County Council’s (MCC) planning committee.

The new homes will be situated to the south west of Penallt on a site allocated in the Local Development Plan (LDP).

60 per cent of the houses will be affordable with 40 per cent market properties.

The affordable houses will be made up of two rows of three terraced properties with one parking space per bedroom.

Councillor Debby Blakebrough said: “To me the site is too dense, there’s too much being put in that place.

“When you look at the affordable housing, the developers are looking at a terrace style approach. That would fit an urban setting but it doesn’t fit a rural setting.

“My view is that it’s overdevelopment of that plot”.

Councillor Roger Harris said: “There’s a need for social housing in the area. If anyone was trying to rent a property up there [Penallt] goodness knows what it would cost.

“I’ve got no problems with the plans, we just need the affordable housing.

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“Whenever plans comes up in the countryside we get objection after objection after objection. As far as I’m concerned the plans are appropriate”.