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Tonnes of dumped rubbish leaves £10m business park an 'apocalyptic' mess
The empty business park was strewn with fly-tipped rubbish
An empty multi-million pound business park looks like "an apocalypse" after tonnes of rubbish and a caravan was dumped on the site by people living there.
Brocastle Business Park in Bridgend was built in 2021 with £10m from the Welsh government, but locals said about 100 people living in 40 caravans were there for several months.
The park, which has sat empty for five years, has rubble, garden waste, black bags and an old caravan strewn across the vast site.
"It felt like an apocalypse was happening," said the owner of a nearby beauty shop.
The Welsh government said it was an unauthorised occupation and fly-tipping was a crime, adding that steps to remove the waste were under way.
One person said they "slept with one eye open" as people in the unauthorised encampment stayed on the site for months
The business park sits on the A48 just outside Bridgend, and business owners in the area told the BBC there had been three unauthorised encampments there in the past year that had grown in size each time.
"You could hear all the noise, some guy spoke about Jesus all night. There were horses and carts racing down," the beauty shop owner, who did not want to be named, said.
The Welsh government said steps to remove the waste were under way