Development Updates - £25m Urban Village

The Urban Village is helping to regenerate the area, provide affordable homes, create jobs, and provide a leisure and work destination that people will want to be a part of.

The Urban Village is providing a new look retail frontage for Swansea High Street. As a previously unused part of High Street and the Strand, the regeneration is breathing new life into the area. The ‘Village’ designed by architects, Holder Mathias, will provide a series of courtyard spaces and link offices, shops, residential apartments and retail food and drink outlets. The aim is to create a destination experience - a place where people will want to shop, eat and work.

The Village also incorporates a Creative Hub. The Swansea Creative Hub will be the first of its kind in Wales, an office block specifically for use by commercial creative businesses, it allows the creative supply chain to be situated in one place in a dedicated commercial and supportive environment.

The idea is that people working in a wide range of creative industries such as advertising, marketing, video games, music, publishing, design, etc will be interested in taking up the spaces.

Ultimately it will help establish a dynamic, colourful and exciting place to work, live and shop. The apartments are built over 10 floors on top of a three storey multi-storey car park. Built to a code four sustainability standard, all apartments will benefit from well designed and spacious living accommodation. Designed to lifetime home standards they include modern kitchen living combined areas and fully fitted spacious bathrooms, with compact shower cubicles.

With the added bonus of integral balconies, due to their location and height of the apartments, many of the residents will be able to enjoy commanding views across the City and beyond. Services provided to the apartment will include a caretaker, remote door entry and CCTV. And, the apartments will literally be breaking ground with their Community Garden Allotments, which residents will be able to work and cultivate.

Preference for the apartments will be given to applicants who meet the criteria under our allocations policy for City Living. The policy is aimed at encouraging people who already work in the area, to live in it as well, thereby generating more interest in the area and making it a more vibrant and interesting place to work and live.

And that’s not all...

Over the five years of its development, around 320 jobs in the construction industry will have been generated. On its completion, the Urban Village itself is expected to see around 426 full and part-time jobs.

£25m Urban Village

• 76 two bed apartments for City Living.

• Commercial/Retail/Office

• Space/Creative Cluster

• Architect: Holder Mathias

www.holdermathias.com

• Planning: Nathanial Lichfield and

Partners: www.nlpplanning.com

• Engineer: Bingham Hall

• Contractor: Mi-Space (Midas Group) www.mispaceuk.com

• Consultant: SCP

• Contract: £6,625,000

Phase One - 52 weeks

High Street Streetscape

Quality commercial/office space.

Completion: February 2012

Phase Two - 68 weeks

• 76 Apartments

- 66 x two bedroom

- 10 x fully adapted

Completion: June/July 2012

Phase Three

Creative cluster building and warehouse

refurbishment, starting Autumn 2011.

Additional Publicity/Adverts

Swansea Creative Hub

Flexible space

Flexible rent

Flexible lease

Huw@swanseacreativehub.com

Call Huw: 07721 375883

http://www.urbanvillageswansea.co.uk/

(All information taking from HomeFront Winter Edition 2011/2012)