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SWANSEA VALE: Former DVLA call centre could become NHS factory making cancer medicines for the region
A vacant office in Swansea Vale could be turned into a factory making cancer medicines for patients across south and west Wales, under plans lodged with Swansea Council.
NHS Wales wants to convert the building at 3 Sandringham Park, in Llansamlet, into a facility producing injectable medicines — many of them for cancer patients.
The plans, submitted by NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, seek to change the building’s use from offices to a medicines production facility.
The site is a former DVLA call centre, one of a cluster of buildings the agency once occupied at Sandringham Park, and has been standing empty and marketed to let.
The application says the new facility is urgently needed. It warns that patients across south and west Wales currently rely on a single unit in Swansea to prepare injections used in scans.
According to the application, that single unit is causing delay and disruption at 12 major cancer centres and hospitals — and if it failed, the NHS would be unable to scan patients with suspected cancer at all.
The documents describe the project as a very high priority for both the Welsh Government and the health boards and trusts that make up NHS Wales.
The facility would make many thousands of patient doses a year, focusing on injectable medicines with short shelf lives that have to be prepared in clean-room conditions, the application says.
Most would support cancer patients, but the plans say the facility would also produce medicines for a range of other conditions and for patients after surgery.
NHS Wales also says the move would bring work back in-house from commercial suppliers in England, securing skilled jobs in Wales — though the application does not say how many people would be employed.
The building would run around the clock, with the busiest hours between 6am and 6pm on weekdays, and staff working shifts.
Because of the sensitive nature of the work, the facility would need licences from bodies including the medicines regulator, the Health and Safety Executive, the Home Office and counter-terrorism police before it could open.
The plans involve no major changes to the outside of the building, which would be converted internally. Bird and bat boxes are proposed on the walls to provide a wildlife benefit.
The application notes the site sits within a flood zone, but argues the facility should be treated as essential infrastructure given its economic and health importance, and says the internal conversion would not increase flood risk elsewhere.
The proposal lands at a difficult time for the NHS locally, with Swansea Bay health board — a separate body from the applicant — recently announcing plans to cut up to 800 jobs over three years to balance its books.
It also comes as the region’s NHS continues to invest in cancer care, with Swansea Bay services recently honoured at awards dedicated to cancer treatment in Wales.
Swansea Council will decide the application in the coming weeks. Residents can view the plans and comment via the council’s planning portal, under reference 2026/1037/FUL.
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How Swansea Council weighs up major planning decisions. -
CROESERW: 25 new affordable homes and assisted-living flats planned for vacant Menai Avenue land
Plans are taking shape to build 25 affordable homes on vacant land in Croeserw, in a scheme that would also bring assisted-living flats to the village.
Social landlord Tai Tarian is behind the proposals for two parcels of unused land off Menai Avenue and Pen-y-Bryn.
The housing association, which manages more than 9,000 homes across Neath Port Talbot, is consulting the public before submitting a formal planning application.
A proposed row of new homes at Croeserw, with off-street parking and front gardens. Image: Tai Tarian / Spring DesignThe plans would deliver a mix of homes aimed at a range of needs.
These include 10 one-bedroom walk-up apartments, four two-bedroom bungalows and two two-bedroom houses.
The scheme would also provide nine one-bedroom assisted-living apartments, housed in a larger block designed as a feature building for the area.
A wider view of the proposed development, showing how the homes and bungalows would step down the sloping site. Image: Tai Tarian / Spring DesignAccording to the developer, the assisted-living block would be set against the natural slope of the hillside, so its size would not dominate the surrounding streets.
Both sites have stood empty for years.
The larger plot fronting Pen-y-Bryn once contained homes that were demolished around 2012, and the scheme would restore the street scene there.
An artist’s impression of the proposed assisted-living apartments at Menai Avenue, Croeserw, showing the courtyard, parking and covered cycle store. Image: Tai Tarian / Spring DesignThe smaller plot off Menai Avenue is open land between two existing housing areas, crossed by a public bridleway that would need to be diverted for the work to go ahead.
A medium-pressure gas main running through the site would also need diverting.
The designs draw on local materials, with a palette of white render, grey brick and slate-effect roofs intended to fit the character of the surrounding 1970s housing.
How the proposed houses fronting the street could look, finished in white render with slate-effect roofs. Image: Tai Tarian / Spring DesignThe homes would be fitted with low-carbon heating through air-source heat pumps, and a sustainable drainage scheme is planned to manage surface water and boost biodiversity.
All the one-bedroom apartments would come with a parking space, the developer says.
The architects behind the scheme, Spring Design Consultancy, say the development would create “a unique and attractive but also sustainable and functional place to live.”
The land sits within the settlement boundary in the Neath Port Talbot Local Development Plan, and the proposals would be assessed against the council’s affordable housing and design policies.
Croeserw, in the Afan Valley, has seen significant regeneration interest in recent years as efforts continue to bring new investment and housing to the former mining communities.
The plans are being brought forward by planning consultants Asbri Planning on behalf of Tai Tarian.
The proposals are at the pre-application consultation stage, the first formal step in the planning process.
For major developments in Wales, the law requires a developer to consult the public before submitting an application, giving people an early chance to see the plans and comment on them.
The consultation must run for at least 28 days. At this stage, comments go to the developer’s planning agent rather than to the council.
Anyone wishing to comment must do so by 10 July 2026, by emailing [email protected] or writing to Asbri Planning at Suite D, 220 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1NW.
A formal planning application would follow, and residents would be able to have their say again before Neath Port Talbot Council makes a decision.
If approved, the development would be built on land that has sat unused for more than a decade.
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How the Croeserw scheme fits Tai Tarian’s wider building programme. -
MORRISTON: Plans submitted to demolish former Tan Y Lan school for 24 affordable flats — with Victorian building set to be lost
Plans have been submitted to demolish the former Ysgol Gymraeg Tan Y Lan school in Morriston and replace it with 24 affordable apartments.
The proposals – submitted by Dyfed Developments SPV2 Ltd through planning agent Asbri Planning – would see the existing buildings on the Tan Y Lan Terrace site cleared to make way for a new C-shaped block of flats.
The site has stood vacant since the new £9.9 million Tan Y Lan School opened nearby in 2022, drawing pupils away from the original site.
Under the new proposals, the development would deliver 18 one-bedroom apartments and six two-bedroom apartments – all of which would be classified as affordable housing.
The developer says the apartments would be energy-efficient with an EPC A rating, and the scheme includes 24 parking spaces – one per apartment.
The proposal was reduced from 27 flats to 24 during pre-application discussions with Swansea Council.
The revised C-shaped block has been designed to step down the slope towards Vicarage Road – reducing the visual impact and meaning the building would appear as just two storeys when viewed from the streetscene.
However, the proposals would result in the loss of the site’s Victorian stone school building – a structure the developer’s own Design and Access Statement acknowledges is “considered to be of heritage value as a result of their materials, architectural form and their location within the historic built and natural fabric.”
The site sits 250 metres west of the Morriston Conservation Area, although the Victorian building itself is not formally listed.
Two single-storey demountable classroom buildings – which were used by the school in its later years on the site – would also be demolished as part of the works.
A visualisation of the proposed 24-apartment affordable housing scheme to replace the former Ysgol Gymraeg Tan Y Lan school in Morriston. Picture: Asbri Planning / Dyfed DevelopmentsThe development would also require the loss of a number of trees, although the developer has committed to retaining a silver birch tree at the centre of the site and incorporating it into new communal gardens.
The Design and Access Statement acknowledges that approximately half of the site lies within Natural Resources Wales’ flood zones two and three for surface water and small watercourse flooding.
Sustainable urban drainage systems including rain gardens and bio-retention features would be incorporated into the scheme to manage surface water on the site.
The proposed apartments would be a mix of one-bedroom and two-bedroom units arranged across three floors.
According to the planning documents, the proposed external materials would include facing brick in various colours, fibre cement roof slates, and grey-finished windows and French doors.
The developer says the site is well-located for sustainable transport, lying within walking distance of Morriston Park, a supermarket, pharmacy and church, and being served by the number 24, 45 and 142 bus services that operate between Morriston Hospital and the city centre.
The site lies less than four miles north of Swansea city centre and is within easy reach of Llansamlet and junction 45 of the M4.
The Tan Y Lan school site has a long history in the local community, having served as Ysgol Gymraeg Tan Y Lan – one of the area’s Welsh-medium primary schools – until pupils moved to the new site in 2022.
Pupils at the school created a lasting legacy ahead of the move, with various keepsake projects undertaken to mark the end of an era at the original site.
A formal pre-application consultation on the proposed scheme is now under way, giving members of the public an opportunity to comment on the plans before a full planning application is submitted to Swansea Council.
Members of the public have until 1 June 2026 to make representations on the proposed development.
Comments should be sent to Asbri Planning by email to [email protected], or by post to Asbri Planning Ltd, Suite D, 1st Floor, 220 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1NW.
Following the conclusion of the consultation, a full planning application will be submitted to Swansea Council for determination – with all responses to the consultation forming part of the supporting documents.
The story of Ysgol Gymraeg Tan Y Lan
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The moment pupils moved into the new £9.9m Welsh-medium school in 2022.Pupils create lasting legacy ahead of move to new school
How pupils marked the end of an era at the original Tan Y Lan school site.Pupils gain insight into construction at £9.9m new school
Tan Y Lan pupils were given a behind-the-scenes look at their new school being built.Tan Y Lan pupils get building thanks to Swansea school contractors
How the contractors building the new school engaged with the pupils who would soon move in.Good progress on five major Swansea school projects
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Tan Y Lan featured among the major school capital projects under way across Swansea. -
TOWNHILL: Social housing developer plans 27 affordable homes on derelict nursery site
A derelict plot in Townhill — one of Wales’s oldest council-built communities — could be about to get a new lease of life, with plans lodged for 27 affordable apartments on land that has sat empty since the demolition of a nursery school more than a decade ago.
The proposal, submitted by Swansea planning agents Asbri Planning, would see the former Bryn Nursery School site at the junction of Townhill Road and Tower Gardens transformed into a 100% affordable housing development — every home ring-fenced for people who cannot afford to buy or rent on the open market.
Artist’s impression of the proposed apartments
(Image: Castell Group / Think Urban architects / Asbri Planning)Behind the scheme is Castell Group, a Swansea Vale-based developer that specialises in affordable and social housing across south Wales, working with registered social landlords including Caredig and Hafod.
The site has a long and frustrated planning history. Bryn Nursery School closed in 2005 and was demolished around 2011, leaving a vacant brownfield plot on one of Townhill’s main roads. Earlier proposals for a 58-bed care home were approved but never built. In 2021, budget supermarket chain Heron Foods — owned by B&M — twice applied to build a small express-format store on the site, only for both applications to be refused by Swansea Council on retail and highway grounds. The land has remained empty ever since.
The development would sit in a neighbourhood with a particular place in Welsh housing history. Townhill — built on the hillside above the city from the 1920s onwards — was one of the first purpose-built council communities in Wales, planned to provide decent homes for Swansea’s working-class population at a time when much of the city’s housing was overcrowded and inadequate. A century on, the demand for affordable homes here hasn’t gone away.
The proposed development would comprise 17 one-bedroom and 10 two-bedroom apartments across several two and three storey brick-built blocks with pitched roofs, in keeping with the surrounding streets. The site — currently overgrown scrubland that has regenerated since the old nursery came down — is just 150 metres from Townhill’s local centre, within walking distance of shops, a pharmacy, a library and a primary school, and close to bus services into Swansea city centre and Morriston Hospital.
Tower Gardens with the development site on the right (Image: Google Maps)The scheme has already been through informal discussions with Swansea Council, which confirmed that the principle of residential development here was acceptable. The original proposal was for 33 units, but this was reduced to 27 following council feedback about the site’s proximity to Tower Court — a supported independent living scheme for older residents next door. A flat roof design was also rejected by planners who noted that the surrounding area is entirely pitched-roof in character.
The plans include 22 parking spaces, secure cycle storage, extensive landscaping and tree planting, sustainable urban drainage, solar panels and electric vehicle charging points.
The public consultation runs until 24 April 2026.
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The latest news and features from the Townhill area. -
Holiday lets and lodges plan for 1930s pump-house at Pembrey Country Park
A planning application has been submitted to transform a former pump-house at the entrance to Pembrey Country Park into 16 self-contained holiday lets.
A further 13 lodges for holidaymakers are also proposed for the surrounding grounds which adjoin an existing caravan and motorhome site.
The plans, by Pembrey Leisure Ltd include the conversion of the pump-house with 11 one-bedroom units on the ground floor and a further 5 two-storey units on the first and second floors.
In a planning statement, agents Asbri Plannng said: “Prior to the establishment of Pembrey Country Park, the land was used for a range of industrial uses relating to the First and Second World War, including the development of the Royal Ordinance Factory.
“During the 1970s, Llanelli Borough Council, and now Carmarthenshire County Council, began transforming the area into the established Pembrey Country Park.
The former pump-house at the entrance to Pembrey Country Park“The former pump-house and surrounding land, located close to the entrance of Pembrey Country Park was originally built Circa 1937-39 and was working until 2000.
“The purpose of the pump-house was to store and pump clean water to Swiss Valley Reservoir, when the demand for water in Llanelli required it to do so.”
The historic building has been vacant for some time according to the report, and in need of renovating to ensure its longevity.
Plans for the building include a contemporary extension to the rear of the building to house a reception, lobby and small shop.
The site would be accessed from Factory Road – the main access road to Pembrey Country Park, with 37 parking spaces provided for those using the facilities.
The planning report added: “”Whilst there is currently provision for touring caravans, tents and motorhomes within the Pembrey Country Park area, there is currently an obvious absence of a self-contained tourist accommodation. The proposed development will therefore diversify and provide a higher quality ‘niche’ offer.”
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