Developers earlier this week submitted ambitious plans for over 100 houses on land near the Old Hereford Road in Abergavenny.

A senior planner representing Edenstone Homes handed Monmouthshire County Council’s planning team the first documents in outline of a 146-home site earmarked for Penlanlas Farm.

The formal request for an Environmental Impact Assessment screening opinion is the first step in the ambitious proposal.

Submitted by Michael Gooch, a senior planner working on behalf of Edenstone Homes, the document lays out the request to MCC. ??“It is currently intended to submit an application for Full Planning Permission for the proposed development towards the end of the year,” it reads, “following the completion of detailed design and master-planning work to be informed by a suite of extensive technical surveys.” ??Planners also requested MCC assist them with pre-planning advice. ??The early plans encompass almost six hectares of open fields in the north-west of Abergavenny, with Old Hereford Road forming the site’s western boundary.

A document seen by this newspaper states that the site has ‘little to no risk of flooding’ and the site lacks ‘features of heritage significance’.

The developer is one of the fastest growing businesses in Wales, earning official recognition within the prestigious Fast Growth 50 list of businesses in Wales for 2018 after boosting turnover from £3.8m in 2015/16 to £14.9m at the end of April last year.

MCC is expected to meet the application for the EIA screening opinion within 21 days.