Plans for more than 50 retirement apartments funded by Newport Housing Trust are being recommended for refusal by city planners.
As previously reported Newport Housing Trust submitted an application for 52 apartments and communal support facilities at Treberth Crescent.
A project worth over £8 million it would provide facilities such as a restaurant, fitness suite and hairdresser on the site.
However, Newport council received objections from local residents that properties in nearby Nelson Drive would be overshadowed by the three and four storey building.
They were "appalled" that a green site was being built on.
Planning officers suggested reducing the development to two storeys but the trust refused saying cutting the number of apartments would reduce the amount of capital available to finance the whole scheme, making in not viable.
The application is recommended for refusal by planning officers on the grounds that the scale of the development will result in loss of privacy for residents in Nelson Drive and because there has been no agreement to pay £126,284 towards building a community facility at the site under a Section 106 agreement.
The application will be discussed at a planning committee meeting on January 13.
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