He said many residents of the town are "depressed".
Could the renewed interest in the seaside town lead to gentrification?"I don't think Barry will ever be posh," he laughed.
"That's probably a good thing. It's a very down to Earth town, lots of brilliant people live there, it will never be [affluent Cardiff suburb] Pontcanna by the sea. It will always be Barry Island or Barrybados as I call it."Barry Island is in fact a peninsula.In the 1880s the island was linked to the mainland as the town of Barry expanded following the opening of Barry Docks by the Barry Railway Company.
In the sitcom, Stacey and her mother Gwen live up the hill from the island on Trinity Street in Barry, with Uncle Bryn just across the road.is located in councillor Naomi Marshallsea's ward Illtyd and she fondly recalled her children shouting Nessa's catchphrase "What's occurring" at tourists taking photos outside Stacey's house.
"Every single time without fail there is joyous laughter," she said.
She grew up 10 miles away in Cardiff but said she never visited the town."Despite the breach, there was no evidence of any contamination of the water supply and the judge agreed based on independent expert reports that the risk to customers was very low."
Anti-pollutions measures in a city centre have been lifted after 20 years following improvements in air quality.Three air quality management areas (AQMAs) covering Gloucester's Barton Street, Priory Road and Painswick Road have now been revoked thanks to a fall in harmful emissions.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which oversees air quality, says the measures should be removed once no longer needed.Councillor Sebastian Field, cabinet member for the environment at Gloucester City Council, welcomed the "great news", but said the authority would "be keeping a close eye on air quality across the city".