NEW jobs and homes are set to be created in a multi-million pound development between Neath and Swansea.

Gracelands Investments has put forward proposals for a site at Crymlyn Burrows, which is set to get council approval today.

It represents growing confidence in that part of Swansea Bay, which has already seen Amazon open, and where there are other ambitious developments in the pipeline.

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One is the transformation of the old BP Oil refinery at Llandarcy into an urban village.

The other is the new beach-front campus that Swansea University wants to build at the old BP site off Fabian Way at a cost of some £500 million.

Gracelands is proposing to build up to 100 homes on land north of Elba Crescent in Crymlyn Burrows, with planning permission already secured for 33 of them. It also wants a commercial development there, with the houses and business sections divided by a landscaped buffer zone.

Planning committee members were meeting this afternoon to discuss the company's outline application, which head of planning Geoff White has recommended for approval.

Mr White confirmed Gracelands had agreed to contribute £100,000 towards play, open space and community facilities in the area. There would also be an element of low-cost housing.

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"There exists an intrinsic conflict between the commercial employment uses that are established in this area, and that of the established residential development," said Mr White.

"As such, the provision of further residential development to the front of Elba Crescent provides a physical buffer to the use to the north.

"However, the impact upon the amenity of residents of these properties must also be considered, and an additional green buffer zone is formally proposed between this and the proposed commercial development."

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There would also be separate accesses to the residential and commercial areas in order to keep them completely apart, he said.