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22-hectare park based around the Bridge Innovation Centre in Pembroke Dock to support growing businesses, ambitions for a hotel and industrial and commercial development in Priory Park Industrial Estate and a planned centre of renewable energy excellence to be based at Waterston / Blackbridge sites.
The areas and sites in Port Talbot Waterfront
Another enterprise zone in the south west and mid Wales area is the Port Talbot Waterfront, which is already home to a highly skilled workforce and a wide diversity of sectors - including Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Energy and Environment and Construction. Having access to a deep water harbour, excellent rail and road links, this area is considered one of the most accessible and unique business destinations in Wales.
The zone boundaries planned for major developments in Port Talbot Waterfront zone are as follows:
• Baglan Energy Park
• Baglan Industrial Park
• Harbourside and Port Talbot Docks
Baglan Energy Park is home to the Baglan Bay Innovation Centre, Solar Centre, Renewable Hydrogen Research and Demonstration, General Electric’s combined-cycle gas turbine power plant, and the Intertissue plant. More than 1,800 people are now working on the park, and once the project is complete, it will have the capacity to accommodate 3,000 jobs.
Harbourside Park is part of the Harbourside project. The town’s former docks quarter is being transformed into a new business hub, which will accommodate leading companies and will create high skilled jobs. Harbourside Park provides business space at the new R&D Village, which is already home to leading global manufacturers such as Tata Steel and TWI UK Ltd.
Swansea Bay City Deal89
The Swansea Bay City Deal stems from the recommendations of the Swansea Bay City Region Economic Regenerations Strategy 2013-2030 and comprises a number of projects which are based on key themes: Economic Acceleration, Life Science and Well-being, Energy, and Smart Manufacturing. Each project is considered major and aspirational in terms of the significant investment required, the employment opportunities proposed and the need for skills implied.
Subject to the approval of project business cases, each Swansea Bay City Deal project is funded through UK Government, the Welsh Government, the public sector and the private sector and will cost an estimated £1.3bn to deliver. Over the next 15 years, it’s expected that the Swansea Bay City Deal will boost the regional economy by £1.8bn and will generate almost 10,000 new, high-quality jobs.
Life Science and Wellbeing Village90
The Life Science and Wellbeing village will be a ‘once in a generation’ development at Delta Lakes, Llanelli which will cost approximately £200 million. One of the largest regeneration projects in West Wales, the village will co-locate, on a 35 hectare site, the public sector (Carmarthenshire County Council and Health Board), academia, private and voluntary sectors. The Village will be the first of its kind in Wales and will include;
89 http://www.swanseabaycitydeal.wales/media/1044/gd4610-sbcd-strategy-board_en.pdf
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