The boarded up address will be alarmed

The address in the heart of the city was shut after a closure order under the Anti-social Behaviour Act was obtained and used for the first time in Wales.

The house will now be boarded up for three months and alarmed.

Nobody can return to the house but if they do they run the risk of being arrested by police.

Acording to officials the property was being rented by a "vulnerable" tenant.

The order was obtained by the Safer Swansea Partnership after they received reports of intimidation of neighbours, evidence of drug paraphernalia and a high number of visitors over a 24-hour period to the property.

"We were acutely aware of the suffering that was being caused to residents of the area, through the actions of one particular tenant and visitors to the property," said the partnership's spokeswoman Nicci Southard.

"[We] hope that the residents of the area can now live without the constant nuisance of a few individuals," she added.

The new powers have been designed to allow Community Safety Partnerships to take action against specific drug activity.

They can be used wherever Class A drugs are accompanied by problems of disorder or serious nuisance.

The drugs included in the act are crack cocaine, heroin and ecstasy.