Welcome to a Swansea Bay website

It’s always good to welcome a new Swansea Bay website – even more so when its subject matter is as iconic as Mumbles Pier.

This month’s devastating blaze at Hastings Pier illustrated how fragile the UK’s grip on our complex social history can be.

So web users should be encouraged to take the charabanc on a glorious day trip to http://www.mumblespierdevelopment.com/. Well, bookmark it at least.

Redevelopment

The Mumbles Pier and Foreshore development is a £39m privately-funded redevelopment project conceived by pier owners Ameco.

Plans include a hotel, apartments, restaurants, leisure complex and the Victorian pier’s restoration complete with new lifeboat house.

Difficult times need private enterprise solutions to boost tourism and economic regeneration – and this fits the bill nicely.

Insight

The website aims to deliver an insight into plans to restore the pier.

Its creators write: “We hope you share our passion for this iconic part of Swansea’s heritage. More importantly, we want to tell you about the vision of how this famous landmark can be the key factor in creating a modern regional visitor and tourist destination.

“As well as providing you with news and background, we hope to answer your questions about the restoration project, how it is to be funded through a redevelopment scheme and how it will benefit Swansea, Mumbles and Gower.

“There’s no question that the pier holds a special place for many generations of residents and visitors.

“It’s full of memories and a little bit of magic that stays with us from childhood. It’s somewhere that you can sit and never tire of the sweeping views of Swansea Bay. It’s a piece of our past that deserves a future.”