Cwm Coke Works, Beddau 

Plans to redevelop a former coke works in the south of Rhondda Cynon Taf into housing have taken a step forward. On Monday, July 17, RCT council’s cabinet approved entering into an agreement with the developer to enable the draw-down of £8m of funding from the Cardiff Capital Region Housing Investment Fund for the Cwm Coking Works in Beddau. The report to cabinet said Cwm Coking works is a strategic site in the RCT LDP (Local Development Plan) and this proposal is looking to allow the potential to develop a minimum of 625 homes, subject to planning permission, and to remove the eyesore that is the disused coking works. Current estimates suggest that the site could accommodate around 650 new homes plus associated infrastructure, open space and community uses. The report said that although the site has been the subject of previous planning applications, little or no interest has been expressed which would suggest that development would not otherwise be forthcoming for the foreseeable future without additional funding. RCT, along with a number of other councils in the area, have been working with Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) on funding to help deliver major residential developments that have stalled and without intervention from the public sector, would not ordinarily be built. For the latest Pontypridd news, sign up to our newsletter Read more: Plans unveiled for 'quality' hotel, restaurant, bar and spa that hopes to transform Valleys town The cabinet report said these are often because of a viability gap caused by prevailing ground conditions largely caused either by past mining activities or previous uses at the site which have resulted in a legacy of significant contamination. The CCR Housing Viability Fund was open to all 10 councils in the region to bid. RCT has spoken with 20 developers and landowners whose sites have (or had) planning consent and/or are allocated sites within the council’s LDP but have not been delivered. Of these 20 sites, three were selected by the council for funding under the Cardiff Capital Region Viability Gap Funding; the former Cwm Coking Works in Beddau, the former Aberdare Hospital site and Nant y Wenallt/Moss Place which is near Aberdare Hospital.

i found this from the web The National Coal Board closed the colliery in 1986, and Cwm Coke works ceased production in 2002, and has lain desolate ever since. However, plans are in for 851 new houses at the site. The Grade II listed cooling towers will be retained as a permanent reminder of the history of the area.

Is this place still standing or has it been fully demolished?

Amazing ❤