County Hall, Cwmbran

County Hall, Cwmbran
County Hall, Cwmbran
	County Hall
	County Hall Location within Torfaen
General information
Address	Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	51.6541°N 3.0013°W
Completed	1977
Demolished	2013
Design and construction
Architect	Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall

County Hall (Welsh: Neuadd y Sir Cwmbrân) was a municipal facility at Croesyceiliog in Cwmbran in Wales.

History

Monmouthshire County Council had met the Shire Hall in Newport, from its creation in 1889.[1] By the 1960s the county council needed more modern facilities: a new building was designed by Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall and construction started in 1969.[2] Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1972, the new building was destined to become the home of Gwent County Council and construction was eventually completed in 1977.[2] On 1 April 1996, under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, Gwent was abolished and the building was acquired by the newly formed Monmouthshire County Council.[3] However, after the building was found to have concrete cancer, and rectification work was estimated at £30 million, the county council decided to demolish it.[3] After the county council had moved to new facilities at Usk, demolition of the County Hall in Cwmbran was carried out in 2013 and the cleared site was sold to Kier Group for residential development.[4]

References

"Shire Hall (including Queen's Chambers)". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. Yale University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0300096309.
"Cwmbran County Hall demolition may need hole filling". BBC. 27 October 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
Niall Griffiths (20 August 2019). "Old Gwent County Council headquarters site in Croesyceiliog to get almost 150 new homes". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 15 September 2019.

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[1] "Shire Hall (including Queen's Chambers)". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

[newman-2] Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. Yale University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0300096309.

[bbc-3] "Cwmbran County Hall demolition may need hole filling". BBC. 27 October 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2019.

[4] Niall Griffiths (20 August 2019). "Old Gwent County Council headquarters site in Croesyceiliog to get almost 150 new homes". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 15 September 2019.