Nearly 400 new homes are being planned for farmland near Emersons Green.
Developer Edward Ware Homes has submitted plans to build 398 homes on land at Lyde Green Farm, just south of the M4.
Heritage farm buildings sit near the centre of the 12.22-hectare plot, which is crossed by two public rights of way and bordered by a cycle path.
The developer says the new homes, an extension of the large Emersons Green East development to the west, would help to meet an “acute” need for housing in South Gloucestershire.
It is promising 159 three-bedroom houses, with the rest a mix of one-bedroom flats, two-bedroom flats and houses, and houses with four or five bedrooms.
Just over a third of the total would be “affordable” to meet a council requirement of 35 per cent, according to planning documents.
To cut down noise from the M4, the new homes beside the motorway are planned as a series of long, three-storey apartment blocks.
Those flats and town houses would have closed-board timber fencing around their gardens, special glazing and no windows in “habitable” rooms facing the motorway.
The occupiers of the Lyde Green Farm buildings, which are now used as housing, are the only existing neighbours who will be affected by the proposed development, according to the planning application.
“The residents of Lyde Green Farm have been engaged through the process to ensure that their concerns and views are taken into consideration in the final design,” it states.
The development would come with parking spaces for 813 cars and 119 bicycles.
A village green and community orchard would lie between Henfield Road and the farm buildings, and a green corridor would protect the Dramway footpath.
A green border would also protect the Avon cycle way on the disused railway line to the east.
Traffic access would eventually be via the A41474 ring road and the development would be served by a public transport bus loop that runs through the site and along Henfield Road.
“The vision is to create a development sensitive to the setting of the listed buildings at Lyde Green Farm, linking to the wider Emersons Green East site but retaining its own 'village' character,“ the application states.
The council intends to decide on the application by early June.
