Quote Originally Posted by Des Parrot View Post
In my opinion this died a death around 1990. The WDA was on the crest of a wave, pulling in foreign investment and manufacturing, exactly what was required to under pin independence. Then they fell to combination of corruption & illegal payments charges coupled with being outmanoeuvred by the EU funded Irish DA. The opportunity to reindustrialise Wales died there & then, through incompetence & complacency.
Should bring back the WDA

The whole of Wales is so compartmentalized it's crazy

The government could use it's powers to have future thinking development and use value adding methods and taking advantage of it's borrowing and legislative powers.

For example there's 7 miles between J34 and J35.

Buy up all the farm land in that area that they can get their hands on at £8000 an acre via compulsory purchase orders
Remediate and plan in a way that suits Wales and future projects
Sell serviced bits of land to developers for 100x what you just paid for it
Overly simplistic and long termism but Drakefords small town mentality will strangle the M4 corridor and hollow out the valleys from within with his politics