<p>Regeneration in South Wales West</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:43 pm on 5 April 2017.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 2:43, 5 April 2017

Cabinet Secretary, I’m familiar with ‘buddleia towers’ as well and I can’t say that I’m over-impressed by Swansea council’s intervention there. But the city deal is better news for Swansea. Perhaps regrettably, it doesn’t address traditional infrastructure or metros, focusing instead on digital highways as drivers for innovation and regeneration. As a result, I’m wondering whether it might not be for Welsh Government, at a strategic level, to kick start an examination of how to improve Swansea’s air quality, examining it within a regional transport plan compatible with the aims of the city deal. Would the Welsh Government look at this so that ideas like monorails and trams and electric taxis and LPG buses don’t disappear from your line of sight just because no-one can agree whether it’s the transport portfolio, the regeneration portfolio or the communities portfolio that takes responsibility for this?