A FORMER Wyeside shipyard which has been earmarked for 450 new homes has been put up for sale.

Outline planning permission for a projected £13m housing development on Chepstow’s Mabey Bridge Works site was granted in April.

Used as a shipyard from the mid-1800s, it became National Shipyard No 1 when warships were built there at the end of the First World War.

D-Day pontoons and landing craft were also constructed there in the Second World War before it became the centre for Mabey’s global bridge building operation.

Demolition of the industrial buildings has already begun and now property agency Savills has put the 41-acre brownfield site on the market.

Bordered to the east by 1.2km of the River Wye with views of the Severn Estuary, and Chepstow Station and the railway line to the west, the development will allow public access to the riverfront, road improvements and other public facilities.

Savills’ Cardiff director Gareth Carter said they had already received interest in the site, and putting it up for sale coincided with an increase in demand for housing.

The site could be sold as a whole or in parts. A guide price has not been released, and the closing date for offers is noon on September 14.