The local council may be cutting services and putting up the shutters - when its not screwing traders - but at least Swansea’s business community showing some vision and attracting investment into the city.
Virgin Atlantic airline is creating more than 200 jobs over the next two years with the opening of a customer service centre in recently upgraded premises. Meanwhile, Swansea Drydocks aims to create a further 85 jobs through maintenance and breaking-up contracts.
Just along Fabian Way, opposite the former Ford plant, Swansea University is currently seeking planning approval for its Bay Science and Innovation Campus which should further transform the eastern approaches to the city through a £500m development.
No doubt a statement will be issued by the Bladder-in-Chief at Calamity Hall ‘welcoming’ these announcements and hinting at some kind of personal involvement. But the call centre is a deal agreed with the assistance of the Assembly government and a local property owner whilst the docks scheme is a private sector project.
As for the university campus expansion, this is actually sited in Neath Port Talbot where the planning process is widely recognised by developers as best-in-class compared to it’s big city counterpart.
Says it all, really.
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I was at a presentation a few months ago when Holley tried to claim that he had been behind the buiding of SA1 Waterfront. The tosser obviously thought that the audience would not know that he was started before he got into office and that it is a WDA/WAG funded project. The man is an embarrassment to Swansea.
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