A renewed bid to build 10 houses at the edge of a Herefordshire village has been put forward.

The “linear” plan along Newport Street, Cusop, “would effectively form part of the urban area of Hay-on-Wye”, just over the Welsh border, a statement with the application says.

It would be on a 0.85-hectare (two-acre) field immediately north of the recently completed Bookers Edge development, opposite the Co-op supermarket, and beyond that the site used by the HowTheLightGetsIn festival last weekend.

The design “provides a strong street frontage which continues the positive urban form established by Bookers Edge”, according to the application.

But with a lower density of houses set back farther from the road, the scheme “will help bridge the gap between town and country, which is currently rather stark”, it says. A disused stone barn by the main road would be demolished.

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The outline application for the plan, submitted by Andrew and Thomas Lloyd, does not specify the likely number of bedrooms in the proposed homes, only that three of them “will be large family homes”, the rest being “smaller in scale to suit first-time buyers or empty-nesters”.

Each would have front and back gardens, and be sold at market rate. A single service road would run from Newport Street to behind the houses, where two parking spaces would be provided with each.

A previous planning application, also for 10 houses, was submitted by the same developer in May 2020 but later withdrawn. A request for pre-application advice for a 49-house scheme was then made in November 2020.

Comments on the application, numbered 221565, can be submitted until June 25.