South Wales Evening Post - 25 October 2006
Planning permission is finally being sought for a world-class indoor bowls centre.Swansea Council's cabinet has agreed to submit a detailed planning application for the development at the former BSC Landore Sports Ground.
The new site lies between Landore, the Liberty Stadium and Morfa shopping centre.
Council bosses said the planned facility would be capable of hosting national and international competitions, and hoped it would be ready next autumn.
It has been three years since Swansea lost its hugely popular indoor bowls venue, when the axe fell on the leisure centre.
It was closed after it was revealed to be in a hazardous state due to a lack of maintenance.
Since then, a number of options were considered for the redevelopment.
Swansea Council cabinet member for culture, recreation and tourism, councillor Gerald Clement, said: "The submission of this planning application enables us to take a significant step towards creating a new indoor bowls facility on an ideal site for such a facility."
Council leader Chris Holley said: "This is excellent news. It is a credit to everyone involved that we have now reached this important stage."
