The Council is set to directly deliver new homes in Plymouth for the first time this century.
A pre-planning application was submitted on Friday for ten exceptionally well designed new homes on the site of the former Morley Youth Centre, off Broadland Gardens in Plymstock.
The spacious family homes will be a mixture of two, three and four bedroomed properties and heated with modern, energy-efficient technology, to help achieve low carbon living.
The plans have been put together with Plymouth-based architects Clifton Emery Design and show high-quality homes that overlook an open, green space.
Once finished, all of the homes will be available for sale on the open market.
What is direct delivery?
Since the Council transferred its housing stock to Plymouth Community Homes in 2009, the Council have played a strategic role in the market by helping and enabling housing to be built by partners and developers through the Plan for Homes.
This new venture will see the Council plan, design and build homes directly itself.
Councillor Chris Penberthy, Cabinet member for Housing and Cooperative Development, said: "Direct delivery of housing has been a long held ambition and I'm delighted with the plans for Broadland Gardens.
"With this project, we want to set the standard for what new homes should look like and instil a culture among the industry that high standard, well designed, low carbon homes are the new normal.
"While Broadland Gardens is the first of these such projects, we're confident it will not be the last."
Neil Emery, Director of Clifton Emery Design, added: “This is a tremendously important moment in time and one which we are extremely happy to be part of.
"The client brief is to design a residential environment that will set the benchmark for new housing in the city."
Now that the pre-application has been submitted, a public consultation window will now open to neighbouring residents of Broadland Gardens and beyond.
A full planning permission application is then set to be submitted in the New Year.
More information on the scheme can be found at www.broadlandgardens.co.uk