Business Parks

Tonight, we're talking about places where thousands of us travel to every working day - business parks.

They used to be called industrial estates and there's one in just about every community in Wales.

Under the Welsh Development Agency we became very good at building them and for a time we were good at attracting companies from all over the world to create jobs in them. But that was in the eighties and nineties and most people accept those days are over.

Many existing business parks have empty spaces but despite this new ones are still being planned.

The biggest is for a 100-acre site at junction 33 of the M4 near Cardiff but there are others.

The question is why build new ones when we can't fill the existing sites? And if they are built, will companies actually relocate in them after the recession?

Wales@Work asks what is the future for business parks in Wales?

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