{"id":91918,"date":"2021-04-14T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T10:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=91918"},"modified":"2021-04-14T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T10:49:58","slug":"biophilic-swansea-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/biophilic-swansea-project\/91918\/","title":{"rendered":"Biophilic Swansea project \u2018a first for the UK\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Biophilic Swansea project will transform the site of the former Woolworth store on Oxford Street, providing affordable new homes and workspace alongside a community urban farm<\/h2>\n<p>The mixed-use regeneration development will be delivered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hacerdevelopments.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hacer Developments<\/a>, with Wales\u2019 largest provider of affordable homes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poblgroup.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pobl Group<\/a>, joining as its residential partner.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme is the result of extensive collaborative working among a range of local organisations, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swansea University<\/a>, the Active Building Centre, Public Health Wales, and a number of local community groups.<\/p>\n<p>Funding awarded through the Welsh Government <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.wales\/innovative-housing-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Innovative Housing Programme<\/a> will enable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/biophilic-design\/86114\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biophilic<\/a> Swansea to incorporate innovative technologies and community features, to explore a new way of inner-city housing in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The aquaponics system will create a continuous cycle where waste produced by fish, living in onsite tanks, adds nutrients to the water which feeds the greenhouse plants.<\/p>\n<p>The water is then filtered and recirculated back into the system.<\/p>\n<p>Biophilic Swansea\u2019s aquaponic fish tanks and associated equipment will be developed in partnership with Swansea University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/bioscience\/csar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research<\/a> (CSAR) and will form part of an education and public display on the ground floor of the tower.<\/p>\n<p>The vision for Biophilic Swansea includes residents running and managing the urban farm as a social enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>The existing building will be redeveloped with new floors added above and a new build tower element to the rear.<\/p>\n<p>This will open into a new multi-use public realm, which will become a vibrant public and cultural space and a destination for events and street markets.<\/p>\n<p>The public realm effectively links the Biophilic Swansea project with the new council-led development at 71-72 The Kingsway on the site of the former Oceana nightclub, which will provide high tech workspace.<\/p>\n<p>Pobl has recently exceeded its target of creating 3,000 much needed new homes in the five years to 2021 and has recently outlined its ambitions for the new decade that includes investing in a further 10,000 new homes by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-91920 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Biophilic Living Swansea\" width=\"704\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-696x487.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-1068x748.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-600x420.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-1920x1344.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea-610x427.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Biophilic-Living-Swansea.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Regeneration, restoration and repurposing<\/h3>\n<p>Andrew Vye, managing director Pobl Homes &amp; Communities, said: \u201cPobl has a growing reputation for delivering forward-thinking housing solutions that push the boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to be working with Hacer on such an innovative project that will deliver much needed high-quality homes for Swansea and support the council\u2019s wider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/school-regeneration-in-swansea\/79006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">regeneration plans for the city centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHacer have shown a real passion and commitment to deliver this project and the support from the council and Welsh Government has been critically important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swansea Council leader Rob Stewart, commented: \u201cThis development is an impressive innovative concept and another landmark development for our city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis demonstrates the confidence in the ongoing regeneration of Swansea from the\u00a0private sector and a commitment to our regeneration, restoration and repurposing agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It[&#8216;s] a great example of partnership working, and I\u2019m grateful to the Welsh Government for the funding it has provided to make this happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn future, more people will live, work, and enjoy spending time in our greener, more people-friendly city centre \u2013 so the lifestyle, wellbeing, quality standards and greening principles of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/biophilic-design\/86114\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biophilic Living development<\/a> reflect what the council is committed to creating.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biophilic Swansea project will transform the site of the former Woolworth store on Oxford Street, providing affordable new homes and workspace alongside a community urban farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[666,13038,594,676,997,279,276,572,656,669,934],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-building","9":"tag-building-design","10":"tag-construction","11":"tag-development","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-housebuilding","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-regeneration","17":"tag-wellbeing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Biophilic Swansea project \u2018a first for the UK\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Biophilic Swansea project will transform the site of the former Woolworth store on Oxford Street, providing affordable new homes and workspace\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/biophilic-swansea-project\/91918\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biophilic Swansea project \u2018a first for the UK\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Biophilic Swansea project will transform the site of the former Woolworth store on Oxford Street, providing affordable new homes and workspace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/biophilic-swansea-project\/91918\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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