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LANDORE: Diggers move in at park and ride as work starts on Swansea’s gondola — but parking is now tighter

Diggers have moved onto Landore Park and Ride as work begins on the base station for Swansea’s new gondola.

The site will become the bottom of the £49m Skyline Swansea cable car, which will carry passengers up Kilvey Hill to a luge track, zip lines and a restaurant at the top.

Skyline said its teams are now on site preparing the area, with the former bus terminal taken down and the bus stop moved by the council.

Drivers will see more hoardings and fencing going up around the work site, which the company said is to keep the public and workers safe.

The park and ride remains open, but the company warned that the number of spaces has been reduced while the work is carried out.

It is the latest visible step in a project that has been years in the making — and one that has split opinion across the city.

Earthworks began on Swansea‘s Kilvey Hill earlier this year, clearing a strip of woodland to make way for the cable car line.

The felling left the hill’s much-loved Green Man sculpture standing alone amid the cleared trees, before volunteers returned him to the woods this week.

The development has drawn sustained opposition from some residents and campaigners, who argue the hill should be left as open green space.

Protest activity on the hill earlier this year led South Wales Police to warn demonstrators that action would follow anyone breaking the law.

Supporters, including the council, say the attraction will bring jobs and visitors to the east side of the city.

What it means for parking

The reduced parking comes as the council looks at moving the park and ride altogether.

In May, it secured funding for a design study to relocate the site to Alamein Road, an industrial estate just opposite the Swansea.com Stadium.

That move would free up the current Landore site for the gondola base station and any associated development.

For now, the company says access to the park and ride is unaffected, but anyone using it should expect fewer spaces than usual while the work continues.

Skyline has not given a date for when the base station work is due to be finished.

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KILVEY HILL: The Green Man is home — beloved sculpture moved back into the woods after Skyline ‘eviction’

Kilvey Hill’s beloved Green Man is back among the trees.

The moss-covered sculpture — which became an unlikely symbol of the row over the Skyline development — has been moved back into the woodland by the volunteers who care for it, months after it was left standing exposed on the cleared construction site.

In February, the figure was pictured standing alone amid felled trees as work began to reshape the face of the hill, with volunteers saying he had effectively been “evicted” from his long-time forest home.

Now he has been relocated to a quieter woodland spot away from the main construction area — a move the volunteers describe as a return to his “spiritual home.”

Children from Bonymaen Kids Play Initiative helped re-stuff the Green Man before the move, and joined volunteers for a special woodland welcome event.

Local families gathered to celebrate, with children taking part in a surprise woodland walk and activities centred on the much-loved figure.

Sharing the news, David Lang, of the Kilvey Woodland Volunteers, said the Green Man had been glad to escape the building site.

“The Green Man has had enough of living in the shadow of the Skyline construction site and has returned to his spiritual home of the woods, surrounded by trees,” he said.

The sculpture was created back in 1998 by local resident Pete Thomas, and has been looked after by the community ever since.

It found itself at the centre of public feeling earlier this year, when tree felling for the Skyline project left it standing in a bare, cleared stretch of hillside — a stark image that struck a chord with those worried about the scheme’s impact.

At the time, Skyline said it recognised the Green Man’s importance and was committed to protecting his future on the hill.

The £49m Skyline attraction, which will bring a cable car, luge and other activities to Kilvey Hill, has been one of the most hotly debated developments in Swansea in recent years, drawing both strong support and determined protest.

For the volunteers, though, this week is about something simpler — a much-loved local landmark back where they feel he belongs.

And there’s a challenge for anyone heading up the hill. The Green Man has been tucked away in a new hidden spot, somewhere along the Viking ship path — and visitors are being invited to see if they can find him.

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The controversy over the development intensifies on the hill.

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