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Recruitment News

Billion pound make-over for ex-steelworks site

(Picture: Photo of Bob Bright)

The start of a £1bn redevelopment plan on the old Llanwern steelworks site east of Newport will go ahead this year and create 10,000 jobs for the duration of the project.

The 600 acre former Corus brown-field site will be transformed into 8,000 new homes, offices, sporting facilities and retail outlets in a project expected to take 20 years to complete.

“The enormous scale of the proposals is yet more evidence of investors’ confidence in Newport as a city of opportunity and reinvention”, Bob Bright, council leader told the Western Mail.

Corus sold the 600 acre site in 2001 when production of iron and steel ceased with a loss of 1,300 jobs.

The developers, St Modwen, say that initial work will commence on the site later this year with the first office and industrial units being constructed in 2008.


London’s loss is Newport’s gain

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has launched a recruitment drive to fill 340 vacancies to complete the final transfer of operations from London to Newport and adding to the 1,460 staff already based here.

Since 2004 the ONS has been steadily relocating staff and services from the English capital and has already moved 260 staff so far.

To cope with the demand to fill the much needed vacancies in Newport, the ONS has developed a new dedicated recruitment centre that will be used be to interview candidates for administration, specialist and senior positions.


Newport city centre regeneration continues

(Picture: A model building sat on some blueprints)

Work has started on a new office development in the city centre of Newport which will provide 500 jobs for the city.

Welsh contractor Cowlin Construction is the company charged with the task of transforming the run-down Lower Dock Street area of the city by developing a new 48,000 sq ft office block.

The project is due for completion in September 2008.


Supermarket giants go head-to-head

Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket retailer, is expected to be given the go-ahead to open a new store in Pontarddulais.

The retailer makes up 31 per cent of the UK grocery market and the new store will up to 280 new jobs for the area.

Tesco makes £4,800 per minute, the equivalent of £2.5bn per year and commands a 31 per cent share of the market. And, the chain plans to create upwards of 12,500 new jobs across the UK within the next 12 months.

Plans for a new ADSA store in nearby Gorseinon, however, have suffered a set-back following a 5,000-strong petition against its development by local residents claiming it will ruin the local economy and put local traders out of business


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