AN ambitious scheme to build 200 new homes in Lydney has been submitted to planners.

The application for outline planning permission is to build 200 homes on agricultural land at Allaston, along with a small shop / community building.

Of the 200 dwellings – which would be a mixture of two, three, four and five bedroom properties – there would be 20 self-build plots as well as 37 retirement apartments and a number of affordable homes.

The application has been submitted by Cheltenham-based Hunter Page Planning, on behalf of Allaston Developments Ltd.

The application suggests that the small retirement scheme would be sited at the centre of the development, adjacent to the new village green and community shop.

The scheme's masterplan is to create a green corridor connecting the three distinct development parcels by means of tree-lined avenues, new public open spaces, landscape buffers and meadow planting.