A new waste and recycling centre for Pembrokeshire is due to open to the public next week (Monday, March 30).
The Crane Cross Civic Amenity and Recycling Centre in Saundersfoot will provide a waste management facility for the collection and segregation of municipal waste serving the south-east of the county.
The £2 million facility received planning approval in June 2014 and has taken seven months to build.
The facility is part of the South West Wales Materials Efficiency project, which is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government.
"This new facility will provide local residents with a state-of-the-art waste and recycling centre," said Clr. Huw George, cabinet member for environmental and regulatory services.
"It will also help us meet the tough recycling targets which we, as a local authority, face in the future."
Sited off Devonshire Drive, the layout of the new development has been based on the award-winning civic amenity site at Waterloo, Pembroke Dock, with a design sympathetic to the agricultural environment of the area.
The buildings have been covered in dark green corrugated cladding, with external lighting being sensitively sited and the whole development screened with bunding, tree planting and vegetation.
It has been designed by Capita Property and Infrastructure Limited, while construction has been carried out by local contractor G. D. Harries.