NEWPORT councillors will be asked to pass a plan tomorrow (Tues) that will formalise proposals to build over 10,000 new homes in the city over the next 11 years.

They will be asked to give the city council’s local development plan (LDP) the green light, which will set out where planning will take place until 2026.

The LDP was passed last month by a planning inspector, Alwyn B Nixon, and he said projections that 7,400 new jobs will be brought to the city by the end of the plan are realistic.

Controversial plans for gypsy sites at Celtic Way in Coedkernew and at the former Ringland allotments have been scrapped from the plan. Instead, the council will be required to identify and then build a suitable site for seven pitches by the end of 2019.

In 2013, 5,510 people signed a petition opposing the allotments being used as such a site, and another against the development at Celtic Way was signed by 3,080 people.

As part of the “aspirational” plan, up to 10,350 new homes could be built across the city – a number that “significantly exceeds” the 8,306 houses required by the Welsh Government, Mr Nixon wrote in his report.

The level of affordable housing in different areas of the city is also proposed. In new developments in Caerleon and rural Newport, the council will seek that 40 per cent of houses built will be affordable. That proportion is 30 per cent in Rogerstone and west Newport, 20 per cent in east Newport and 10 per cent in Malpas and Bettws.

Most of the plans included in the LDP are already under construction or in the process of being passed by the council. On the Glan Llyn development, where 4,000 homes will be built, 20 per cent will be affordable homes. Of the total, 2,262 will be built before 2026.

In order to boost Newport city centre – which the council admits has “been slipping down the UK retail rankings” – a test will be applied to improve the mix of shops to ensure developments there are appropriate.

In one strand of the plan, the council proposes to restrict development at Newport Retail Park. But it is expected the Friars Walk development will “do much to enhance the city centre’s vitality and retail offer,” Mr Nixon said.