Outdoor Recreation Service, who are we part 2 15th March 2020
This blog continues explaining who and what the County Councils Outdoor Recreation Service is The Millennium Coastal Park, (MCP) stretches from the county boundary near Lougher Bridge along the coastal strip down to the eastern edge of the Burry Port Harbour area, a distance of around 14km. The main attractions along this stretch of coast are the Wildfowl & Wetlands LLanelli Centre, WWT Llanelli (WWT image ) North Dock Dunes and beach and Sandy Water Park. However if you visited this area in the 1970's you would seen a mostly heavily industrialised area, nothing like the green oasis that we find today. Early Industry Llanelli and the surrounding area grew up and became a place of extreme wealth from the heavy industry and mining over a 200 year period and whilst this brought undeniable benefits to the area, as heavy industry declined it did leave massive scars and industrial dereliction, as has been mentioned elsewhere, the decline was and still is, controve