The Southville neighbourhood was an area of 25 acres developed by the Cwmbran Development Corporation from 1958 as part of cwmbran New Town. It is located to the south of the Town Centre and, like Northville, was designed as a more urban backdrop to that centre than the other residential neighbourhoods. Here the density was dwellings was around 16 to the acre, but with a higher percentage of flats built than in other neighbourhoods. A particularly notable development was the series of five, four-storey, blocks of flats that line St David's Road on the east side of Southville, constrcuted by Modern Building (Newport) from 1960 and designed to impress people as they entered into Cwmbran on the main southern appraoch road. The visual impact of these, originally brick, buildings has been lessened by recent over cladding. Much thought was put in to the planning of plaground, open forecourts and extensive schemes of planting by the CDC.

In 1964 the Brookfields Infants and Junior School opened on the west edge of Southville; in 2010 this was closed and merged with Hollybush School to form Nant Celyn Primary School.

S Fielding May 2021

Ref: Cwmbran New Town: An urban characteristaion study