Many people are celebrating having fought to protect a landscape in West Cross they hold dear. ‌The development site comprises land that’s part of Fairwood and Clyne Common – although it’s known locally as West Cross Common – and the 56 homes have been given planning permission by Swansea Council. ‌But because it’s common land so-called exchange land has to be identified and registered under the 2006 Commons Act. ‌Applicant the Somerset Trust identified replacement land near Northway, Bishopston, for this purpose and applied to the Welsh Government to effectively swap it with the housing land. Ms Hurst described the development land as an “aesthetically-pleasing sheltered part of the common” with diverse habitats, species, and wildlife.