- Highlight Park
Highlight Park is a small district on the
northern outskirts of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan in southWales . It is a circular housing estate built in the 1970s by Wimpy Homes. The area has aTesco supermarket, achemist , a community centre, a doctors' surgery and afire station which was built before the housing complex. Nearby locations includeBarry Comprehensive School , built in the 1960s andBryn Hill Golf Course which runs around half of the lower half of the estate which overlooks theVale of Glamorgan .Highlight Park expanded in 1988 with the building of the
Tesco complex and an additional sub housing estate Hunter's Ridge. Plans for further expansion of 500 new homes was announced in 1995 on current farmland but substantial petitioning resulted in proposals being rejected.The area also has a farm known as Highlight Farm which is over five hundred years old and is owned by the Lakin family who have owned the land in the area for centuries. The Lakin family sold further
land toBrynhill Golf Club in 1994 during their expansion. The farm was once operated by the Welsh politician and farmerCyril Lakin who died in the early 1990s.Construction started in 2006 on a new GP surgery to serve North Barry, replacing two existing surgeries in Holton Road and Salisbury road. The surgery is on land behind the existing community centre and opened October/November time in 2007.
Nearby districts include
Colcot andCwm Talwg .External links
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