CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save two of Port Talbot’s most historic buildings have admitted defeat in their efforts to stop them being demolished – but have sent a message of defiance to the council, Cadw and the Assembly Government. Around two dozen people on Saturday attended a demonstration outside the Customs House and Royal Buildings,...
Read More »
CAMPAIGNERS hoping to save two historic Port Talbot buildings are staging a demonstration this weekend with just days to go before demolition is due to begin. The group Hands Off Our Heritage has been campaigning to save Customs House and Royal Buildings from demolition for more than two years, and has exhausted many of...
Read More »
AN 11th hour breakthrough is in prospect in the year-long struggle to safeguard two key components of Port Talbot’s architectural heritage – the historic Custom House and Royal Buildings. Local campaigners Hands Off Our Heritage have been battling plans by Swansea-based Coastal Housing Group to demolish the two buildings and replace them with flats....
Read More »
THE WELSH Heritage Minister Huw Lewis has refused to step in to save Port Talbot’s Customs House and Royal Buildings from demolition. Campaigners had been hoping for a last minute reprieve for the historic buildings with the help of the Welsh government. Bethan Jenkins AM reacted angrily to Huw Lewis’s refusal to intervene in...
Read More »
DEMOLITION of Port Talbot’s Customs House now looks inevitable, following a meeting between developers Coastal Housing and Assembly Member Bethan Jenkins this afternoon. She said demolition would start within weeks, and blamed CADW and Neath Port Talbot Council for not safeguarding the buildings earlier in the development process. In a statement, the Plaid Cymru...
Read More »
ABERAVON MP Hywel Francis has pledged to support the local campaign to save Customs House from demolition. Port Talbot MagNet had asked Dr Francis for a statement last week, following the news that Coastal Housing chief Tim Blanch had said saving the facade of the building would cost £1m and would be impractical. But...
Read More »
SAVING the façade of Customs House would cost more than £1 million, the chief executive of Coastal Housing Group, Tim Blanch, has said. Customs House is one of two historic buildings slated for demolition as part of a development by Coastal Housing, which will replace them with 46 modern flats. The Port Talbot campaign...
Read More »
AN ABERAVON photographer has decided to catalogue two historic buildings in Port Talbot just weeks before they are due to be demolished. The two Port Talbot buildings are due for demolition in the coming weeks as part of a development by Coastal Housing – with some reports suggesting they could be knocked down as...
Read More »
follow: RSS
