The Cardiff Capital Region has confirmed a sizeable rise in the cost of a legal challenge over how it awarded a £30m contract to demolish the former Aberthaw Power Station. The city region, made up of the ten local authorities of south-east Wales, acquired the former coal-powered station - which occupies a 500-acre site in the Vale of Glamorgan - from energy giant RWE in 2022 for £8m.

Through its subsidiary business, CCR Energy, it then entered a competitive procurement process, which saw Erith winning the £30m contract to demolish the plant, as part of plans to eventually turn the site into a green energy park.

However, a successful legal challenge over how the contract was awarded was lodged by losing bidder, Brown and Mason Group. In February, the city region abandoned its legal defen

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