Copper Quarter, Swansea
Client: Barratt South Wales
CgMs Contact: Greg Pugh
The series ‘Hidden Histories’ is currently being aired on BBC Wales and on the BBC i-player. The programme celebrates 100 years of Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. 
Episode 2 focused on a large housing development being built by Barratt South Wales in Swansea.
The site was formerly the Addis Plastics Factory, but the concrete floor of the factory sealed the substantial remains of one of Swansea’s biggest and oldest Copper works.
The site has been described as ‘A Welsh Industrial Pompeii’. CgMs Consulting helped Barratt obtained planning permission, consent to demolish a dilapidated listed building and then managed the archaeological mitigation works, prior to the construction of the new apartments and houses.
