Swansea is on the coast, and can literally be described as “beside the sea”. The location of Swansea Bay, South Wales, is a desirable destination for divers reasons. It’s good for your business, it’s good for you, and its good for your people. Swansea Bay Area covers Gower, Mumbles, Swansea City Centre and Parc Felindre on the outskirts but within a surfboard of all the benefits.
Good for Business
Parc Felindre is a strategic business park accessed directly from Junction 46 of the M4 motorway, the sole arterial link between London, Wales and the West of England. Bristol, the capital of the West of England is about an hour’s journey time, and the M4 gives convenient access to the business thoroughfares of Cardiff, Bath, Swindon and London, as well as to Birmingham in the Midlands. No wonder Parc Felindre is the choice for leading distribution company DPD Group UK, assisting its advancing UK overall revenues to £1.5 billion.1
Swansea is a city by the sea, celebrated both as a gentile Regency destination for sea bathing and as an industrial powerhouse. From its Elizabethan roots as a riverside harbour, Swansea developed prime industrial ports to support the growing industries of the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution. Today it is a place where its maritime history has shaped its distinctive character and identity, but also gives it a unique and confident perspective into the future. 2
The city has invested in extensive urban development, with a £1 billion Swansea Regeneration programme funded collaboratively by the Swansea Council, private sector developers, public partners and government grants. The programme of transformation is a testimony to how carefully the city is rebuilding its future potential without destroying its past prosperity. The regeneration programme sweeps across the entire city and benefits not only those who visit but those who work and run their business in Swansea and its spectacular environs. Swansea is undergoing the most exciting transformation in the city's rich history, from re-landscaped retail outlets, transformed state-of-the-art office and leisure developments, to plans for the UK's first tidal lagoon.
Kingsway regeneration into a state-of-the-art office scheme
What is impressive, is the Swansea Council’s extensive corroboration with partners far and wide, in the public and private sectors, from The Welsh Government to private developers. The objectives have also been far-reaching.The positive metamorphosis of this city too has considered benefits for business, residents, visitors and students. The council has taken a proactive role as both developer and funder of key projects, which in themselves are proving a catalyst for future growth, development and regeneration. Swansea is already building on its flourishing past to apply the £1bn regeneration programme to recreate Swansea as the premier destination to work, live, study, enjoy and visit.3
Parc Felindre
Parc Felindre Business Park is itself a fine example of just how the Swansea Regeneration Programme works. It has transformed the site of the former Felindre Tinplate Works, that helped make Swansea a historic industrial powerhouse, into a current opportunity for technology, transport and science to develop this high quality destination for business.
Parc Felindre is a joint venture partnership between Swansea Council and the Welsh Government clearing and remediating the brownfield site, installing new on site infrastructure for the development of high-quality offices and industrial premises for established and growing businesses in the area and from further afield. The site has 12 fully-serviced flexible plots ranging from 1.2 to 4.9 acres.
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References
1 civvystreetmagazine.co.uk
2 https://businessnewswales.com/swanseas-bright-future-is-rooted-in-its-great-past/
3 swansea.gov.uk
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https://www.swansea.gov.uk/regeneration?lang=en
