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Three-panel montage showing a cluttered kitchen left as it was, a stone barn interior with timber stalls, and a modern white fitted kitchen
dooer-upper

SWANSEA: Named fourth in the UK for ‘fixer uppers’, but what does that actually mean?

New research puts Swansea joint fourth in the UK for properties needing work. We ran the filter ourselves, and what…

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.…

The Falcon Hotel on Lammas Street, Carmarthen, a three-storey sage green building with bilingual signage
Carmarthen

CARMARTHEN: Falcon Hotel up for sale after more than half a century in the same family

The Lammas Street institution where generations of Carmarthen families have celebrated weddings, christenings and Sunday lunches is on the market…

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…

Sam Thompson smiling at the camera in a video message filmed outdoors in the sunshine
auction

TUMBLE: Made in Chelsea star joins fight to buy back the Workies

Sam Thompson has never been to Tumble and admits most of the village won't know who he is, but the…

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 Great Mountain club's main hall, with round tables, a stage and rugby honours boards on the walls
auction

TUMBLE: Village bids to buy back ‘Workies’ before September auction

The Workies shut its doors in July after 133 years. Now it is up for auction, with the club in…

The Fairwood Terrace street sign at its junction with Victoria Road, Gowerton, with a low stone railway bridge crossing the road ahead and traffic passing through — the site of a proposed traffic signal-controlled junction.
Burry Inlet

GOWERTON: Decision on 216 homes slips further away as Persimmon stays silent over crucial environmental study

The homes planned at Fairwood Terrace beside Gowerton station cannot be approved or rejected until Persimmon produces a major environmental…