Lovell partners with Carmarthenshire council on 84-home Dôl y Castell scheme

Carmarthenshire County Council has entered an agreement with Lovell to develop and build 84 mixed tenure homes off Ffordd Pentre in West Carmarthen, with work on site expected to start in early 2027.

The scheme, named Dôl y Castell in the announcement, will consist of 42 open market sale homes and 42 affordable homes. Of the affordable homes, 25 will be let at social rent and 17 offered through low-cost home ownership, Lovell said.

Homes of one, two, three and four bedrooms are proposed. The development is also to include open green spaces, footpaths, play areas and social gathering spaces.

Emlyn Schiavone, Carmarthenshire County Council's Cabinet Member for Homes, said: "Around one hectare of the site is dedicated to green infrastructure, including open spaces, footpaths, planting, play areas and areas for community use."

The programme

Lovell said work is expected to start in early 2027 and finish in 2029. The first open market sale homes are due to be available at the end of 2027, with the first affordable homes following in spring 2028.

The announcement was issued by both the council and Lovell, with identical wording on the agreement and the same start and completion dates.

Anthony Vagges, regional managing director at Lovell, said the scheme had been designed around the Placemaking Wales Charter. The charter was developed by Welsh Government and the Design Commission for Wales and, according to the commission, sets out six placemaking principles.

Tenure split

Tenure	Homes
Open market sale	42
Social rent	25
Low-cost home ownership	17

Source: Lovell

Background

The deal comes against the council's wider affordable housing programme. In September 2025 the council said it was on target to deliver over 2,000 affordable homes by 2027, with more than 1,400 delivered since 2022. Its target for 2025/26 was 370 additional homes using a range of affordable housing solutions.

At that time the Cabinet Member for Homes was Cllr Linda Davies Evans, who said the council continued to deliver quality homes for local people as well as exceeding targets. The current announcement quotes Emlyn Schiavone in that role.

Separately, in November 2024 the council's Cabinet agreed to expand low-cost home ownership options, including developing new products of that kind on selected council new-build sites. The council said then that it was committed to providing as many opportunities as possible for residents to become home owners.

Lovell is part of Morgan Sindall Group plc, which it describes as a FTSE 250 listed partnerships, fit out and construction services group.

Vagges said Lovell would be starting work on site next year, with completion of the scheme scheduled for 2029.