Housing target: Newport 1,140 a year — flood risk is the limit east of the Usk

Welsh Government published indicative local shares of the new housing target on Wednesday. Cover Wales has mapped the Gwent slice: Newport 1,140 homes a year, Torfaen 410, Blaenau Gwent 280, Monmouthshire 520, Caerphilly 690. Those are planning figures, not funded starts.

The local hook

Monmouthshire members have already said the A40/A449 corridor cannot take that volume without a new secondary school. Newport’s cabinet paper on the Usk works notes that flood risk, not land supply, is the binding constraint east of the river.