Newport’s City Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing & Regeneration, Cllr Jane Mudd, has visited the city’s latest riverfront housing development, which will bring more than 200 new homes to the city.

The circa £24m housing development ‘Bank House’ is being delivered by local housing and care provider Pobl Group, in close partnership with energy and regeneration specialist ENGIE, Newport City Council and the Welsh Government.

Located alongside the river Usk, what was once a disused, brownfield site has been replaced with a tree-lined river walk, linking the housing development to the nearby Glebelands park.

Bank House will comprise a mixture of two and three-bedroom houses and one and two-bedroom apartments which are available to affordable rent or buy via a range of housing solutions, designed to suit individual circumstances.

With a build programme spanning four years, the properties will be developed in four phases.

The first phase will be launched this summer and will provide 20 two-bedroom apartments, with spacious balconies, perfectly positioned to take advantage of the scenic riverfront views.

These will be available for outright sale and on a shared ownership basis through Pobl’s specialist home ownership company Poblliving.

Kathryn Edwards, Pobl Group’s managing director, homes & communities, said: “We are delighted to be creating more high quality homes in a prime position in Newport, hot on the heels of our extremely popular, award-winning Loftus Garden Village.”

Cllr Mudd said: “At a time when house prices and demand for housing are rising in the city, it is important that there are schemes such as this which create affordable homes, to both rent and buy.

“Pobl have a proven track record of delivering high quality housing developments and helping people to make that first, important, step on the property ladder.”

For more information on Bank House, and the launch of Pobliving’s apartments, go to the poblliving.co.uk website.