Swansea: City on the Beach

We are proud to be supporting Urban Splash in their 20 year partnership agreement with Swansea City Council across seven strategic sites. Each site is delivered in partnership with contributions from a number of different designers including including Studio Egret West, Rural Office, ShedKM, AHMM, FCBS, Loyn+Co and Grant Associates. Together these add up to a wider unifying narrative for Swansea, where quality of life, health and wellbeing, fairness and shared prosperity define what makes the City a great place to live, to work and do business and to visit and enjoy.

Studio Egret West is the masterplanning architect and landscape architect for the “City Waterfront”, a world class destination and a new waterfront district for Swansea, where the city meets the beach. Sitting at the end of the newly created Ffordd I’r Môr (“Route to the Sea”) connecting the city centre and Arena directly to the beach, the reinvented and repurposed Civic Centre building will form the centrepiece of a new district buzzing with places to eat, drink and entertain including 150,000 sqft of commercial space, an aquarium, a hotel and up to 600 homes.

We are also developing a new strategic spatial framework and development vision for Hafod Copperworks, a beautiful historic site on the banks of the River Tawe close to Swansea.com stadium and Morfa Retail Park. The plan sets out a range of development plots and opportunities for a wide range of flexible uses and occupiers – commercial and residential – to complement the multi-million pounds of public and private investment already going into the site. Major Levelling Up funding is bringing new life to the existing heritage buildings alongside exciting new world-leading leisure attractions including the recently opened Penderyn Distillery and Visitor Centre. A blend of old and new, action and relaxation, local and international.