Sirhowy Enterprise Way | Public Transport
Caerphilly County Borough’s location between Wales’ capital city of Cardiff in the south and the Brecon Beacons National Park to the north can provide the smarter alternative for your business location, providing all the essentials for an excellent quality of life.
Oakdale Business Park is located on the eastern fringes of the Caerphilly County Borough, approximately 11 miles north of the M4 at Junction 28. Oakdale Business Park has a dedicated access road linked to the A472 at Pontllanfraith, bringing future occupiers within 5 minutes of Blackwood town centre. The construction of this road, the Sirhowy Enterprise Way and the 2 key cross valley links was completed December 2005.
The 170 acre site is adjacent to the highly successful Pen-y-Fan Industrial Estate which is home to companies such as Unisem Europe Ltd and Abingdon Flooring.
An entrance roundabout provides direct access from Parkway which is the main road through Pen-y-Fan Industrial Estate, and this gives direct access to the 2 largest plateaus 1 and 2. On-site infrastructure has been funded through the Welsh Capital Challenge, with an entrance roundabout providing direct access to Plateau 1 and 2. A spine road runs through the length of the site providing access to the lower plateaus and linking directly with Sirhowy Enterprise Way.
The Oakdale Village Link Road links the Business Park with a prime executive style residential development by Redrow on the edge of Oakdale Village. Improvements have been undertaken to the B4251 Kendon Hill which leads up to the Pen-y-Fan Industrial Estate.
The main access to Oakdale Business Park is via the Sirhowy Enterprise Way. The Welsh Assembly Government approved the Private Finance Initiative (P.F.I.) credits to design, build, finance and operate the Sirhowy Enterprise Way.
This high standard route strengthens the strategic highway network in the Sirhowy Valley and enters the business park at the western end. There is approximately 4.3 km. of single carriageway including 2 key cross valley links to the north and south of Blackwood, with the northern link across the elegant cable stayed Chartist Bridge.
Sirhowy Enterprise Way Ltd., a partnership between Laing Investments and Costain, was selected as preferred bidder to design, build, finance and operate the Sirhowy Enterprise Way for 30 years.
The construction of the Sirhowy Enterprise Way is crucial to the full development of Oakdale Business Park and work commenced on site in January 2004, with completion in December 2005.
The scheme, at the heart of the county borough improves the A4048/A472 strategic highway network between the north of Blackwood and east of Pontllanfraith, as well as providing a direct new access route to Oakdale Business Park.
Various bus services run to either Blackwood or Newbridge from Newport, Brynmawr, Cardiff, Cwmbran, Ebbw Vale, Pontypool, Pontypridd and Tredegar.
Bus Service 5, operated by Islwyn Borough Transport, now runs half hourly between Blackwood, Oakdale and Newbridge with additional journeys between Blackwood and Oakdale during Monday to Saturday daytime.
The main bus stops at Pandy Road, Croespenmaen are within 5 minutes walk of the Business Park. Some early morning buses run into the Business Park via Parkway to the junction of Rush Drive on Pen-y-Fan Industrial Estate.
Regular rail services run from Cardiff to Ystrad Mynach Station. Rail Linc 901 offers a dedicated rail link between Ystrad Mynach and Blackwood. The service is designed to meet trains at convenient times with through ticketing available.
The re-opening of the Ebbw Valley line provides an integrated system with bus feeder services to Oakdale Business park and Park and Ride schemes. New stations have been constructed at Ebbw Vale, Llanhilleth, Newbridge, Risca, Crosskeys and Rogerstone.
Construction commenced during 2006 and the 18 mile line opened for passengers in February 2008. An hourly service operates from Ebbw Vale to Cardiff.
The £30 million Ebbw Valley Railway was funded through a £7.5 million European Union’s Objective 1 Programme and £7 million from the Corus Steelworks Regeneration Fund, with the remainder of the funding being provided by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Transport Grant.
