Eager speculation among detractors that the new planned science campus for Swansea University was in jeopardy because of money problems by sponsors BP has been confounded this evening with news of £400 million Assembly funding.
The Bay Science and Innovation Campus, proposed for a 69-acre site between Fabian Way and the waterfront, is estimated to create thousands of jobs and inject an additional £3bn into the regional economy over 10 years.
It will be interesting to assess the reaction of a group of myopic and ultra-parochial Swansea city councillors who objected to the project solely because it is to be located just a few yards outside the city boundaries.
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Myopic indeed. This and other developments are filling in the spaces between Swansea and Neath Port Talbot to the point where a single unitary authority becames the obvious way forward.
Wales has far too many local authorities resulting in expensive duplication. Malfunctioning Anglesey will be the first to go (merged with Gwynedd) but it won't stop there. I predict that Merthyr will be next, simply on grounds of diminishing population.
Wot? No BP? No Moscow Gold?
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