Persimmon Homes
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…
URDD: Regional eisteddfods in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire get £2,500 boost
The money from housebuilder Persimmon will go towards next year's regional rounds of the Urdd Eisteddfod across west Wales. The…
GOWERTON: Flood regulator says 216-home site ‘did not fully comply’ with flood guidance, then agrees flooding can be left out of the study
Natural Resources Wales has backed Persimmon on flooding, contamination and landscape, while joining the council in questioning the age of…
GOWERTON: Bats, dormice and otters put back on the table for 216 homes, but the council says nothing on traffic
Swansea Council's reply to Welsh Government officials, sent on deadline day, asks for new wildlife surveys at Fairwood Terrace because…
WINCH WEN: “We just want our little boy to walk”: Teddy, three, and the £50,000 robot legs his family can’t get on the NHS
Teddy Gorman, three, from Winch Wen, has low muscle tone and cannot yet walk on his own. In August he…
GOWERTON: Developer wants traffic concerns omitted from environmental study on 216 homes rejected by councillors
Persimmon has asked the Welsh Government to narrow the study on its Fairwood Terrace scheme to sewage alone, dropping traffic,…
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,…
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…
GOWERTON: ‘Surely they should have foreseen this?’ — the decade-long fight over homes, schools and mine shafts now in the hands of a Welsh Government inspector
Swansea Council says claims about the Fairwood Terrace development are "misleading and inaccurate". Campaigners say the documents tell a different…
GOWERTON: Persimmon’s Fairwood Terrace plans dealt massive blow as Welsh Government orders full environmental assessment
Campaigners fighting Persimmon Homes' proposed 216-home development at Fairwood Terrace in Gowerton have won a landmark ruling after a Welsh…
BRYNCOCH: £1,000 boost for ‘friendship and hope’ school as pupils celebrate big win
Smiles all round at a specialist school near Neath after a surprise £1,000 donation gave pupils a major boost —…