Green light for 152-home development on Welsh colliery site

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Not-for-profit housebuilder United Welsh will offer a “signifcant proportion” of the development as affordable housing

Plans to build 152 new homes on the site of the former Windsor Colliery in Abertridwr, Wales, have been approved by the local authority.

The proposals by not-for-profit housebuilder United Welsh was approved by Caerphilly County Borough Council’s planning committee at a meeting this week.

The Windsor Colliery opened in 1895, raising its first coal in 1902. It was joined with the Nantgarw Colliery in 1974, and closed in 1986. The site was remediated in 2007.

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