Construction

A crane lifting a curved steel section with a walkway and ladder onto a concrete pier at the Skyline base station site at Landore, with Kilvey Hill behind and a large yellow component on the ground
Cllr Rob Stewart

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…

A grassy mound ringed by temporary metal fencing on bare, dug-over ground on Kilvey Hill, with conifers behind and solar panels and Swansea in the distance
archaeology

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…

Drone view of the Skyline gondola base station site at Landore, with a piling rig, blue site cabins and a scaffolded column of steel reinforcement on a concrete base, and the cleared gondola line running up Kilvey Hill behind
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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…

Two workers in orange hi-vis and hard hats spraying a green seed mix from a hose onto a bare earth bank beside temporary fencing, with woodland behind
featured

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…

The rear of a semi-detached house mid-extension, with new blockwork walls, a steel beam, acrow props, a wheelbarrow and stacked bricks on the ground
Clarke Bell

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…

Artist's impression of The Buccaneer as a curved white three-storey building with gold lettering, a glass rooftop terrace and people at café tables outside
Bridgend County Borough Council

PORTHCAWL: The Buccaneer is saved, and getting its 1930s ocean liner look back

The seafront bar was due to be demolished. Now the council plans to restore it, possibly as a restaurant, café…

Ben and Rachel Davies sitting on blue sofas in front of a wall of LBS Group brand logos including Talbot Timber, Total Plumbing and LBS Renewables
Ammanford

AMMANFORD: The builders’ merchant that started as a Llandeilo sawmill in 1931 posts £92m sales, a 30% profit rise and a national award

LBS Group, still run by the fourth generation of the Davies family, says it grew sales and profits in 2025…

Circular steel frame of a pavilion under construction on the Castle Square Gardens site, with diggers and trees behind
Castle Square

CASTLE SQUARE: Swansea is looking for someone to run the cafés in its new gardens

The council has started looking for café and restaurant operators for the two pavilions going up in Castle Square Gardens,…

Aerial view of the flattened St David's car park site covered in crushed concrete, with excavators and workers in orange, the Vue cinema and tree-lined roads behind
Copr Bay

SWANSEA: St David’s car park all but gone as diggers chew through the last of the decks

At the start of September the 375-space multi-storey on Oystermouth Road still had its decks. On Monday morning it was…

A crane and excavator on the bank of the River Tawe beside the Bascule Bridge, with workers in hi-vis alongside the old timber supports in the water
Bascule Bridge

LANDORE: The timbers are coming out at the Bascule Bridge, with the span due back next year

Work has started on the last phase at Landore, with the river supports being replaced before the 70-tonne steel span…

The empty Neath Road house in Maesteg, its render overgrown with ivy, alongside its boarded-up front bay with legal notices on the garden wall
Bridgend

MAESTEG: Empty for 30 years, the Neath Road house nobody could touch is going under the hammer

Bridgend council spent years trying to get the owner to act while the ivy climbed and the rodents moved in.…