Proud of our extensive award-winning work in Wales, in honour of St. David’s Day we’re sharing some of our best projects in this wonderful country.
We’ve been working with the Welsh Government on Active Travel Guidance, promoting better walking and cycling in Wales and are part of a working group of interested parties in the development of a new Placemaking Charter for Wales. Operated by the Design Commission for Wales, the initiative seeks to enhance design quality in new developments and promote placemaking.
Our own Phil Jones helped make history when ministers in Wales backed the new national 20mph default speed limit in July 2020 as advised by the Welsh 20mph Task Force Group which Phil chaired. He simultaneously chaired the Welsh Pavement Parking Task Force providing advice to the Welsh Government on strengthening enforcement against drivers parking on pavements.
Our engineers worked on the award winning Glan Llyn. The former Llanwern steelworks is being transformed into a new neighbourhood, delivering 4,000 new homes, and is one of the UK’s largest brownfield redevelopment sites. The project scooped an RTPI Cymru Award for Planning Excellence in 2020 and has been shortlisted as a finalist in the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence this year.
We made an impact with Coed Darcy, the first ever redevelopment of an oil refinery for residential end use. The exciting development programme will see approximately 2,500 new homes being built providing 30,000 new jobs in the area. Another award winner, this project picked up Best Urban Regeneration Project. As part of our service offering, we advised on the excavation and treatment of over 600,000cu m of soil and the recovery and recycling of over 1.5 million litres of oil.
Our placemaking team, in partnership with leading architect BDP, are developing masterplan ideas for Swansea City Centre and Bridgend Town Centre to help frame new development and public realm, while in Bangor, we worked with LDA Design on a masterplan to shape the town into an attractive, successful and sustainable place for people.
In partnership with Swansea University, our team worked with St. Modwen to deliver an internationally acclaimed centre for academia at Bay Campus, Swansea. This former petroleum storage facility site boasts over 1m sq ft of accommodation, teaching and state-of-the-art academic and research space for over 5,000 students and 1,000 staff. Yet another award winner, this project scooped the RICS Wales Regeneration Project of the Year and the Building Excellence Award for Best Educational Building not to mention it is one of the only campuses in the UK with direct access to the beach with its own seafront promenade!
Continuing the Swansea theme, we are helping to deliver around 300 new homes, woodland and open green space at Hendrefoilan, a former student accommodation site. We also have extensive experience of undertaking environmental assessments of former industrial sites across Wales including the former Baglan Bay Chemical Works and Angle Bay in Pembrokeshire, both of which are derelict land we are helping to turn to beneficial usage.
We’re so proud that our transport, engineering and placemaking advice is making such a positive impact across the length and the breadth of the country. Cymru am byth!
For more information about PJA’s services and projects in Wales, please contact: [email protected]
