planning
SCHOOL DELAY: Council asks for six-year delay on new Garden Village school promised with 750-home estate
Families are already moving in. The school they were sold is on a timetable that would surprise most of them.
COUNTY FLATS: The Aberavon beachfront is getting 135 new flats and its tallest building yet
Every one would be let at social rent, the gas comes out of the flats that are staying, and there…
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…
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…
BRIDGEND: Nine new shops and open-air square planned for McArthurGlen designer outlet
The shopping village at junction 36 wants to grow — with a new anchor store, an outdoor square with seating…
SWANSEA VALE: Former DVLA call centre could become NHS factory making cancer medicines for the region
NHS Wales wants to turn a vacant office at Sandringham Park — a former DVLA call centre — into a…
SWANSEA: American sandwich chain Which Wich lines up first city-centre outlet
The Dallas-based chain, which made customers queue down the street when Popeyes arrived, has lodged plans to turn a city-centre…
GOWER: Campsites could open without planning permission as new rules slip past council protections
A change in Welsh Government law means some recreational camping on Gower no longer needs a planning application — and…
FELINDRE: ‘A real let-down’ — two council leaders, years apart, share the same frustration over stalled flagship site
The long-promised Felindre site has been branded "a real let-down" to Swansea Council and the Welsh Government, with the authority…
CROESERW: 25 new affordable homes and assisted-living flats planned for vacant Menai Avenue land
Social landlord Tai Tarian wants to build houses, bungalows and assisted-living apartments on long-empty plots in the Afan Valley village…
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…