Why exactly work stopped remains something of a mystery, with the site owner and local authority remaining tight-lipped, and people sharing theories with Jay online.
He admits initially thinking it was “something out of an apocalyptic movie”, adding: “It just looked completely abandoned.
“At one stage I thought maybe it was a film set because Wales has a lot of filming going on at the moment.
“It was only until I got a bit closer with the drone that I realised it was a fully-fledged hamlet of houses with garages with electricity and lighting.”
The 38-year-old from Swansea documents abandoned and forgotten places across the UK in an effort to preserve history “before it disappears”.
It was while researching the area around the old oil refinery site that he stumbled upon a collection of houses that looked like they would have been expensive, with a “quaint cottage-style feel”, but had been left to decay badly.
There was also grass growing up through the cement.