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CHOOSE A DIGITAL LIFESTYLE IN SWANSEA
wansea is about to undergo a digital makeover with plans for two significant digital developments in the City Centre. A mixed-use development is set for the City Centre’s St David’s and Oystermouth Road area to include a Digital Square and Digital Arena; and a City Digital Village is being created on The Kingsway to help regenerate The Kingsway and Lower Oxford Street areas.
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St David’s and Oystermouth Road A leisure led mixed use development is being planned for St David’s and Oystermouth Road area to include a new indoor Digital Arena for concerts and events, an outdoor Digital Square, more shopping to extend the city centre’s range and choice of shops, a multi-screen boutique cinema to improve the range of evening attractions, a greater choice of cafés and restaurants, residential apartments above the shops and restaurants to add more vitality to the city centre, additional facilities for Swansea University, a new hotel close to the arena, parking facilities, and a broad pedestrian bridge to unite both sites of Oystermouth Road, creating a permanent linkage from the city to the waterfront.
The Site is made up of the former St David’s Shopping Centre and the LC car park, which are owned by City & County of Swansea Council. Rivington Land is managing the regeneration of the St David’s development site for Swansea Council.
Pre planning application consultation is currently underway, with a Planning
application to be submitted in March 2017, and completion of the first phase to include the Digital Arena scheduled for March 2020.
The development will be a scheme of regional importance, and will provide significant employment opportunities in the digital arena, new university facilities, and leisure elements, generating and sustaining hundreds of jobs.
The Council are currently procuring an operator for the Digital Arena which will have 3000 capacity, suitable for conferences, concerts and wide range of
other events. The arena’s attraction as a venue for major tech conferences and events, large scale concerts and entertainment will enhance the city’s social vitality. The adjacent Digital Square will incorporate external screens, projections and digital art. A hotel tower adjacent to the arena, up to 13 storeys in height will accommodate over 100 bedrooms. Significant interest has already been received from retailers, and café and restaurant operators for the new scheme proposals.
One of Swansea’s major attributes is its long south facing waterfront bay that features a beach of golden sand. The Swansea Central development will provide much-enhanced connectivity between the city core and the waterfront by way of a broad flat pedestrian bridge to unite both sides of Oystermouth Road
The University facilities also located on the site will include a digital library, art gallery and teaching facilities.
The Kingsway
A former Oceana nightclub on The Kingsway is being replaced with a new modern office development as part of a new Central Business District and Employment Hub which is being developed to improve footfall and viability of businesses in the vicinity. The former nightclub and a number of surrounding properties have been purchased by the
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