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Key questions. Where is Fforestfach? How has Fforestfach changed? Why has it changed? What are the impacts of these changes?. Development at the rural-urban fringe. A new style retail park based on a Superstore (Tesco) - Fforestfach. Where is Fforestfach ?. The City Centre: CBD
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Key questions • Where is Fforestfach? • How has Fforestfach changed? • Why has it changed? • What are the impacts of these changes?
A new style retail park based on a Superstore (Tesco) - Fforestfach Where is Fforestfach? The City Centre: CBD Swansea city
Rural-urban fringe • The rural zone surrounding the built up area into which urban functions, often decentralised from urban areas, are located such that the fringe takes on a mixture of rural and urban functions.
How has Fforestfach changed? Fforestfach Retail Park, Swansea - completed (Aug 2002). Parc Fforestfach, Swansea, UK Size: 22,075 m².Over 1300 free car parking spaces.Provides 14 new units ranging in size from 400 m² to 2,000 m² http://completelyretail.co.uk/portfolio/Henderson/scheme/3393/photographs.html
Parc Fforestfach The area to the southwest of Carmarthen Road/Pontarddulais Road, called Parc Fforestfach, developed in the early 2000s. It suffers from parking problems during peak hours. The Tesco Extra store at Parc Fforestfach is one of the largest supermarkets in Wales.
Some of the other retailers at the site include Marks & Spencer, Boots, Next, Clarks, Outfit, River Island, New Look, The Carphone Warehouse, Pizza Hut, Thomson Holidays, Birthdays, Thorntons inside the Birthdays store and Costa Coffee. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?expflags=enable_star_based_justifications:true&ie=UTF8&cid=16110552105209938220&q=Pontardulais+Retail+Park&iwloc=A&gl=GB&hl=en
In November 2006 a new Park and Ride scheme was introduced in Fforestfach to ferry shoppers into the heart of Swansea City centre.
Temple Street gutted in the blitz Why is Fforestfach changing? Rebuilt in the 1960s Redesigned and improved in the 2000s
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Key questions • Where is Fforestfach? • How has Fforestfach changed? • Why has it changed? • What are the impacts of these changes?