A DEVELOPER has submitted plans to Newport city council for affordable housing on the Old Town Dock redevelopment.

Fairlake Properties, on behalf of Charter Housing, has submitted proposals to build a total of 101 homes for affordable home ownership and rent.

They would be a mix of two, three and four bedroom homes including 86 apartments and 15 mews and terrace houses on the riverfront which Fairlake says will have the highest standards of sustainability.

If approval is granted, work will start early next year.

The Old Town Dock redevelopment is a key part of the multi-million pound regeneration of Newport.

The whole area, covering 45 acres, is being transformed in a £200 million redevelopment programme to create a new southern gateway to the City, complete with 1,500 apartments and houses, an 80-bed hotel and riverside park.

Energy efficient features in the affordable homes, designed by architects Powell Dobson, will include a high level of insulation, a combined heat and power unit which will provide domestic hot water, and photovoltaic panels which will generate renewable electricity.

There will also be a biomass boiler for heating.

Neil Barber, Assistant Director at Fairlake, said: "Providing affordable, greener and better-designed homes for the future is essential and is very much the vision of all partners for the former Old Town Dock site."

The Project Team is working in partnership with Newport Unlimited, Newport City Council and the Assembly.

Fairlake Properties, incorporating Gwent Homes, works in partnership with their local authority and other agencies. It has helped over 900 people onto the property ladder to date.