The man leading an adventure resort project which could transform a south Wales valley has said he plans to build it in time to open in four years. Martin Bellamy said he was fully committed to delivering Wildfox Resort in the Afan Valley notwithstanding the current "massively challenging" economic climate.
Gaining reserved matters, or detailed, planning approval from Neath Port Talbot Council earlier this month was, he said, a very significant step. The resort project has a team of experts, a website, its own company - incorporated in 2021 - awareness locally and further afield, and a range of planning and technical reports that will shape its progress its journey from drawing board to reality on 132 hectares of land near Croeserw and Cymmer.
At the same time inflation is galloping, the UK looks to be sliding into recession, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine has cast a pall over Europe. "We are definitely operating within a massively challenging economic climate," said Mr Bellamy, who is a director of Wildfox Resorts Afan Valley Ltd and merchant banking firm Salamanca Group, which is taking the project forward.
