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Penplas Urbanbuild, Llangwm, Penlan, Swansea

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NPRN544628
Map ReferenceSS69NW
Grid ReferenceSS6371796781
Unitary (Local) AuthoritySwansea
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityPenderry
Type Of SiteHOUSING ESTATE
Period20th Century
Description

Modern housing estate built 1990-1991 to the designs of PCKO Architects. Colquhoun states the site was provided by Swansea City Council for this American Plywood Association initiative that was ‘intended to demonstrate the benefits of timber-framed housing and to promote its use in urban regeneration […] The winning design produced a modular design solution that allowed for a high degree of repetition in the prefabricated timber frame whilst achieving the potential for considerable variety of building forms.’ 

 

M. Powel, RCAHMW. October 2021.

Sources

Ian Colquhoun, RIBA Book of British Housing, pp.307-08
Jonathan Vining and Malcolm Parry, Wales 1901-2000, p.31