projects

Millennium Coastal Park, Llanelli

Burry Port Enhancement

Client: Millennium Coastal Park / Mott Macdonald

The Llanelli Coastal Park is a 23km park created along the South Wales Coast, centring on 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. It provides one of three major gateways into the coastal park, to which the other facilities of urban park, water features, land bridges, pathway networks, earth sculptures, forestry, habitat creation, existing wetlands and dunes form the whole.

TACP have provided all the landscape design element for this park design area, guiding 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.