From oil refinery to sustainable village
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Atkins is working with St Modwen Developments of earthworks, together with the construction of
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the first sustainable ‘Urban village’ in Wales. The from the south of the site to reduce the impact on
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project is expected to be the largest regeneration congestion at the adjacent M4 junction.
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Consultant
programme of its kind to date.
Environmental
Atkins is providing consultancy services to SMD,
Engineering
The Coed Darcy project involves the acquisition of the taking the lead in the extensive remediation
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former BP Llandarcy Oil Refinery site in neath, South programme, onsite drainage and infrastructure,
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Wales, a site formally closed in 1997. This was the offsite link road and necessary improvements to the
first refinery in the UK built in the early 1920s, and motorway junction. The team is also providing services
produced, at its peak, 340,000 tonnes per year of in the ecological consideration of the site and its
petrol, diesel, kerosene and other products. Since its adjacent Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
closure, the process plant and tank farm storage have The overall development will draw upon an
been decommissioned and demolished, leaving the extensive range of skills to deliver integrated
largest single brownfield development site in Wales. multi-disciplinary solutions.

“ We were pleased to select Atkins because of their multi-disciplinary skills and
expertise in remediation and implementation of development of brownfield sites.”
Neil Williams, SMD Construction Manager
The remediation of the brownfield development Upon completion, it is expected to bring significant
site is anticipated to take seven years to complete, economic and social benefits to the area. By 2027,
with twenty years of infrastructure and building this redeveloped site will be transformed into a new
construction to follow in a phased approach. Around £1.2 billion urban village, providing homes for around
1,125km of pipelines and cables are expected to 10,000 people. It will also include three primary
be removed. In addition, around 800,000 tonnes of schools and a secondary school, community facilities
hydrocarbon contaminated material and a million including community halls, a library, youth centre and Below: Aerial view of the Coed
tonnes of metal contaminated material will also be doctor’s surgery, as well as 3,200 permanent jobs for
Darcy site, a former oil refinery
that will be transformed into a
remediated. The works will involve 15 million tonnes the local community. n £1.2bn urban village.
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