One of the main aims of the Transport Hub is to improve the public realm around the train station and create better walking, cycling and public transport infrastructure by placing all vehicular traffic on the periphery of the site, including bus services. Due to a number of bus services requiring longer stays, and to reduce the potential impact of bay blocking, it is essential to provide sufficient parking space away from the pick-up zone or DIRO (Drive-in Reverse-out).

The proposal enables a five bay, bus-parking area to be designed at the northern edge of the site on old disused section of Network Rail land and to link this zone to the existing infrastructure by extending the road feeding the entrance to the Medical Centre. This would allow vehicles to access the Network Rail depot and the MFA Bowl facility as well as provide a route for buses to reach the DIRO bays.


The development of the Transport Hub requires HC to undertake the following legal transactions:

1. taking a Licence for Works from Network Rail/Transport for Wales to allow HC to undertake public realm works on their land
2. a Licence to Occupy to allow Network Rail and Transport for Wales to using the existing part of the forecourt being sold to HC until the works in that area start.
3. a Deed of Easement to give access rights to Network Rail over the land being sold to HC which will become the new access road and later public highway.

As this is HC’s project, all of the decisions above require HC to indemnify the other party’s for their costs incurred with the project by paying their reasonable legal fees and professional costs. This is normal commercial practice where the other party’s engagement with a project is not mandatory or not in their interest.