Living Under the M4: How a Welsh Town Turned Motorway Shadow Into Community Asset

Homes were demolished, chapels flattened, and communities displaced when the M4 was built in the 1960s; residents received no compensation until the 1973 Land Compensation Act became law.

Sixty years after a concrete motorway was threaded through the heart of Port Talbot, Wales — displacing families and flattening chapels in the name of progress — the communities that remained have quietly rewritten the meaning of what was imposed upon them. What was built as infrastructure for speed has become, for those living in its shadow, a source of shelter, affordability, and unexpected belonging. The 1960s habit of routing motorways through cities rather than around them left wounds that took decades to acknowledge legally, yet also created conditions that modern planning would never pe

Living Under the M4: How a Welsh Town Turned Motorway Shadow Into Community Asset

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