Property and Construction
PORTH COPR: 57 flats, cafés and a courtyard called Frog Yard proposed for old St David’s site
The next chapter for the old St David's site borrows a name from Swansea's past. You can see the first…
CARMARTHEN: Neighbours line up against 38 council homes behind the leisure centre
The council is the one applying, and three of its own councillors say too few people on Llansteffan Road have…
GOWERTON: Brand-new utilities lorry strikes Wales’ most-hit railway bridge
It’s the third strike at the bridge we’ve reported this year, and the lorry is brand new, on a plate…
KILVEY HILL: First steel goes up on Swansea’s cable car base station at Landore
Skyline says the foundations are finished and the superstructure is rising, five months after construction began. The station will take…
CARMARTHEN: 835 demand an inquiry into the £41m Atriwm, as the council keeps St Catherine’s Street roadworks until Christmas
Campaigner Scott Bayes will put the case for an independent inquiry to councillors on 12 November. The council says the…
SWANSEA: Wales’ ‘haunted house’ capital, but that bump in the night is probably your boiler
More than a third of the city’s homes were built before 1930, and over half have poorly insulated walls, according…
KILVEY HILL: Skyline fences off the ruins of a windmill first built in 1680
What's left of the old mill is now ringed by fencing as work on the gondola and luge attraction goes…
LANDORE: The gondola terminal’s ‘bones’ are about to go up at the park and ride
Foundations for Skyline's base station are finished, and the steel frame is next, so the building's shape will soon be…
KILVEY HILL: The Skyline site’s bare slopes are being sprayed green to grow a meadow
Crews are hosing a mix of seed, mulch and nutrients onto the ground stripped for the gondola and luge. It's…
LLANELLI: Old Woolworths and the Tinhouse set to come down in January to make way for the new market hall
The council has filed the demolition notice for 8 to 14 Vaughan Street. The papers reveal who else is living…
PAYING A BUILDER: Check one date on Companies House before you hand over a deposit
Overdue accounts turned out to be the tell. Local firms that had them were four times more likely to be…