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Building work on the first homes part of a £2bn “garden city” suburb in Cardiff is expected to start before Easter.

The huge Plasdwr scheme will see new schools, roads and 7,000 homes in north west Cardiff.

The first phase of Plasdwr is due to get underway, with the highway improvement works and site entrance to be followed by the start of building the first set of homes.

The first 126 of 630 proposed homes in the north west of the capital, approved by planners at the end of last year, will be built on a 16-acre site to the north of Llantrisant Road, by lead developer Redrow Homes.

Set within 900 acres of land – owned by the Plymouth Estate – Plasdwr will be developed over the next 15-20 years, bringing around 7,000 new homes to the city as well as shops, offices, schools, health centres, leisure centres, pubs and restaurants.

The development was part of Cardiff’s controversial Local Development Plan, which laid out where homes would be built in the city over the next decades.

Redrow Homes is expected to appoint a contractor shortly, with infrastructure works expected to get underway within the next month on a site access road.

The start date will be confirmed once the contractor is appointed, with improvement works expected to last 12 weeks.

Building work on the first set of homes is expected to begin before Easter, with the first residents planned to move in during the autumn.

Redrow are set to release more details on the house types, design and composition of the new homes next month.

Infrastructure improvements will then carry on later this year with a road-widening scheme to bring in a new bus and cycle lane between Clos Parc Radur and Radyr petrol station on Llantrisant Road.

The development marks the first phase of Plasdwr, a garden city of thousands of homes planned over a 900-acre site bordering Fairwater, St Fagans, Danescourt and Radyr.

For more information, you can visit www.plasdwr.co.uk .