File photo dated 01/02/18 of houses under construction on a new housing development site. According to the National House Building Council (NHBC) the number of new-build homes being registered jumped to an 11-year high in the third quarter of 2018. Plans that could see a mothballed nursing home project near Llanymynech transformed into homes have been submitted to Powys Council. Unity House at Llandrinio had been expected to be transformed into a nursing home in 2008, but despite work starting after the planning application was given permission, it was not completed. The building has been unoccupied ever since. Now a new application has put forward plans for the change of use of the property, with minor extensions to the previously-approved application also included.