Llanelli Coastal Park
South Wales
Client: Millennium Coastal Park and Mott MacDonald
The Millennium Coastal Park is a 23km park created along the South Wales Coast, at Llanelli. The town of Burry Port located to the west is an old metal processing town, with a run down harbour and extensive dereliction due to the demise of the former Carmarthenshire Power station. Land reclamation works have underpinned the process by which a significant and vibrant stretch of new park has been created to act as a major tourist attraction for the region.
A wide range of varying site situations have been harnessed, including coastal defences, two silted and crumbling harbours, power station foundations, extensive PFA lagoons, metalliferous wastes, landfill tip, railway sidings, sand dunes, marshland and existing wetland habitats.
The enhancement of Burry Port Harbour includes a new harbour setting, incorporating leisure boating, fishing, Town Park, waterside theatre and development opportunities within a fragile town fabric. The harbour area provides one of three major gateways into the coastal park. TACP has provided landscape design input and implementation packages for the Burry Port and Eisteddfod Field design areas. Park features include water features, land bridges, pathway networks, earth sculptures, forestry, habitat creation, and retention of existing wetlands and dune areas.
As project landscape architects TACP has guided the basis for all stages of engineering, landscape and ecological design, working with a framework concept, developing it through a masterplan and refining it into design details for construction.
