Construction

Metal fencing, a cement mixer, bulk bags and a mini digger on bare ground at the entrance to Ysgol Bancyfelin
Bancyfelin

BANCYFELIN: Village anger as council cuts down Christmas tree for ‘agreed’ school entrance works

Staff and governors at Ysgol Bancyfelin say they were never told and gave no permission. Carmarthenshire Council says the tree…

A red mobile crane lifts a blue lattice tower crane section over Victorian terraced houses under a blue sky in Porthcawl
Andrew Scott Ltd

PORTHCAWL: Tower crane rises over the Grand Pavilion as the rebuild begins

A tower crane now stands beside the Grade II listed seafront landmark, with the steel frame for its new extension…

Aerial artist's impression of Castle Square Gardens, showing lawns, planted terraces, a fountain, a big screen and a copper-clad pavilion beside the castle ruins
ACME

CASTLE SQUARE: New images show the copper and stone pavilions, as opening slips to the second half of 2027

Fresh images reveal the two cafe pavilions, the play fountain and the big screen coming to Swansea's Castle Square Gardens.…

CGI of the redeveloped Civic Centre's northern entrance courtyard, with a copper canopy spelling Civic, planted gardens and people walking through
City Waterfront

SWANSEA: Civic Centre plans finally go in, and the small print tells its own story

The full Civic Centre planning application runs to hundreds of pages. What's in them, and what's missing, matters to anyone…

The River Tawe in Swansea seen from the western bank, with the tree-covered former railway land of the St Thomas development site opposite and the river bridges in the distance
Codi Group

ST THOMAS: 124-home riverside neighbourhood planned for empty railway land

124 homes, half of them affordable, are now proposed for the seven-acre site north of the river bridges, down from…

Five people in hi-vis vests and hard hats stand outside a new red brick and dark-clad house at the Garden Village development
affordable homes

GARDEN VILLAGE: Council buys 141 homes at new estate, 70 for the housing waiting list

Swansea Council has bought the affordable homes at Persimmon's Garden Village development outright, the first time it has done so,…

Steel beams and timber joists span the interior of the roofless stone Laboratory Building, with scaffolding and blue sky above
Bascule Bridge

LANDORE: New floors go into the copperworks ruin that could become a 100-seat restaurant

The Laboratory Building is getting floors for the first time in decades. It is one of six schemes now under…

The weathered timber deck and trestles of the Morfa Bascule Bridge over the River Tawe, with the Swansea.com Stadium in the background
Bascule Bridge

LANDORE: Bascule Bridge set to return to the Tawe as contractor appointed for final restoration phase

Swansea Council has appointed Ian Davies Plant to deliver the last phase of the Morfa Bascule Bridge restoration, which will…

Actor Di Botcher looking out over the docks in Port Talbot
Cllr Cen Phillips

PORT TALBOT: Princess Royal Theatre’s new name revealed by Twin Town star Di Botcher

Port Talbot's revamped theatre will reopen under a new name this autumn — revealed in a video fronted by Twin…

David James, Rob Stewart and Ross Miller standing in front of greenery at the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks, with the scaffolded engine house tower behind them
Cllr Rob Stewart

SWANSEA: Council electricians patent lightning-protection process experts said couldn’t be done

David James and Ross Miller spent hundreds of hours in a shed refining a safer way to join the metals…