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...
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PORT Talbot-born comedian Bennett Arron is returning to his home town on Thursday for a one-off night of laughter. Award-winning Bennett, the only Jewish/Welsh performer on the comedy circuit, will be strutting his stuff at Blancos on Thursday, March 15, in a show that will be filmed for television. The fun starts at 7.30pm,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LOCAL heritage campaigners and AM Bethan Jenkins have hit out at Cadw and Neath Port Talbot Council following news that the Customs House in Talbot Road will now be demolished to make way for construction of 46 new flats. The company behind the redevelopment, Coastal Housing, says the building will be demolished within weeks....
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TWO Assembly Members have urged Neath Port Talbot Council’s planning chair to look again at giving a much-loved building protected status. Regional AM Bethan Jenkins and David Rees, Aberavon’s new AM, spoke this week at a chamber meeting in the Assembly, questioning Heritage Minister Huw Lewis about plans to demolish the historic Royal Buildings...
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Port Talbot and Neath Girl Guides feature in new book on history of the Guiding movement
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