From Neath & Port Talbot Courier
Aberavon AM David Rees has welcomed the final installment of funding for Port Talbot’s multi-million-pound highway project.
This year will see the completion of Harbour Way, a three year £107 million peripheral distributor road (PDR), which aims to ease pressure on the M4.
Mr Rees said he welcomed a £7.97 million pound investment by the Welsh Government - the final installment of the cash funding.
The announcement was made by Edwina Hart AM, Minister for the Economy, Science and Transport.
The grant, from the Governments’s Transport Grant Scheme, has been awarded to conclude …
A Taibach charity with a 33 year history of helping disabled people within the County Borough has become the latest charity to be supported by the contractors building the new Harbour Way dual carriageway.
Everybody’s Gateway Club provides a youth club for disabled youngsters where they can learn to cook. play sports as well as arts and crafts.
Costain has pledged to raise £7,500 between now and the opening of the £107m road in October this year, and have already got off to a flying start with members of the site team …
Harbour Way contractors have been busy Beavers helping out the Scouts in Port Talbot.
Costain and sub contractors Tarmac have shown that they are always prepared after coming to the aid of the 11th Port Talbot (Little Warren) group to provide them with a new access path into their hut.
The group got in touch with the contractors behind the new £107m dual carriageway in the County Borough to see if they could lend a hand with a new path as their wheelchair bound Group Scout Leader, Bill Baker, was having difficulties …
Costain and South West Workways have forged a successful partnership to help 40 residents of Neath Port Talbot find sustainable jobs working on the construction of the Harbour Way link road.
Eric Doherty, Andrew Taylor and Neil Rees are just three of the people Workways and Costain have helped back into full time employment.
Workways, a Neath Port Talbot Council led employment project, is supported by the European Social Fund whilst Harbour Way is part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, through the Welsh Government.
Since being employed by Costain, the trio have …
Residents in the Margam and Taibach areas of Port Talbot are being offered a free tree for their gardens as part of a project to make the town cleaner and greener.
A community day was held at Dyffryn Upper Comprehensive School on Friday to launch the Talbot Trees project, an initiative to improve air quality and health by planting 1,100 of the trees that are most effective at removing pollutants.
At the event Council Leader Ali Thomas and David Rees AM joined councillors and local residents in rolling up their sleeves and …
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