PLANS have been submitted to create 28 new affordable homes off Monmouth Street in Bridgwater.

The brownfield site used to home to the Monmouth Trading Estate and CJ Motors and was used as an industrial site with car sales and a petrol station.

Since it ceased trading and was demolished some years ago, the site has been lift barren and only utilised by a few parked cars.

Now a new plan has been created which would see 28 dwellings at the Eastover location.

The full application proposes a mix of one, two and three-bedroom properties arranged as terraced or semi-detached homes.

Access to the site will be provided via Monmouth Street with plans to upgrade the existing layout in order to create a new T-junction.

A spokesman for Summerfield Developments said: "It is perceived that the car will be subservient to other forms of transport.

"Parking will be provided based on ‘bed spaces’, with one or two-bedroomed properties having one car parking space each and three-bedroom properties will have two spaces.

"This provision is in accordance with Somerset County Council's transport policy."

Prior to the submission of the application, the applicant sought informal advice from Sedgemoor District Council and had a meeting with Duncan Harvey, the council's affordable housing policy and development manager.

Currently the site consists of hardstanding with patches of overgrown hawthorn bushes that have been left to sprawl.

The application site consists of hardstanding with patches of overgrown hawthorn bushes that have been left to sprawl across the hardstanding.

The proposed development will ‘infill’ a small parcel of dilapidated land off of the A38 Broadway near Cross Rifles Roundabout.

To view the full application visit the planning section of Sedgemoor District Council's website and search for the application number 08/18/00142.