Barry Waterfront
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| Coordinates: 51°24′5″N 3°16′17″W / 51.40139°N 3.27139°WCoordinates: 51°24′5″N 3°16′17″W / 51.40139°N 3.27139°W | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Region | Wales |
| County | Vale of Glamorgan |
| Town | Barry |
| Time zone | GMT (UTC+0) |
Barry Waterfront or Waterfront Barry, known locally as The Waterfront, is a retail park and neighbourhood of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, built from redeveloped land from the old Barry Docks, to the southwest of the town centre and to the immediate west of Barry Dock Offices. It is accessed via the Gladstone Bridge from Broad Street, to the south of Barry Memorial Hall, and along the Ffordd-Y-Mileniwm road from the southeast, leading on from Cardiff Road approached via Palmerston.
Plans for redevelopment of the waterfront in Barry date back to 1988, during the period that Cardiff Bay was undergoing major redevelopment by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation. Like the one further along the coast in Cardiff, the Barry Waterfront redevelopment scheme has been one of the largest to be undertaken in the UK. The Associated British Ports (ABP) and the Welsh Development Agency began undertaking a multimillion-pound land regeneration programme on 77 hectares (190 acres) of land next to the Number One Dock, working with the Barry Joint Initiative from 1991, and the Barry Waterfront Consortium was established to manage the regeneration scheme of the derelict area at the Number One Dock.
In 2001, Morrisons opened a new branch at the site, and a 55,000 sq ft non-food retail park adjacent to the site, hosting Focus DIY, Halfords, Argos, and a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, was completed in 2004. In 2002, Westbury Homes were given the green light to build new £12 million apartments at Barry Waterfront, to be named David's Wharf after David Davies, who established the Barry Docks. Byron Lewis, project manager, stated at the time of the fifth residential development at the site that "The new development will build on the success of Waterfront Barry as a top quality site for economic and community growth". At the same time it was announced that there were plans to remove the Vopak chemical tanks from the Barry Island side of the docks.
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