General Developments

I'm not a fan of this idea, but it looks like Carluccio's is taking the Guess unit in SD2. This is completely the wrong location. Next to the Apple Store and the Perfume Shop? If this happens then it goes against their strategy of having all restaurants in "Eastside" and further alienates retailers from the shopping centre. Now hopefully if it does happen it isn't permanent, as it states in the window that it will be a pop-up. A pop-up Carluccio's? I've got no idea what that will entail but it's wrong, in my opinion. Shake Shack has already taken a substantial amount of potential retail space and now it looks like this type of thing is going to be happening all over SD2.

It's going to be a Christmas pop up food store as far as I know, there was one in the centre a few years ago.

Ah okay! That's not so bad then!

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local ... d-10335481

Looks like some residents of Atlantic Wharf will oppose the development next to county hall. The grounds mentioned are:
a) Losing a Green Lung and damaging the ecology of the site.
Well if Japanese knotweed and thistles is a "Green Lung", and ecology consits of giant rats and shopping trolleys, they may have a point!
And more honestly:
b) They object to social housing in an area of predominantly private housing.
Now I didn't realise this was social housing. I'm surprised to be honest. But Its not grounds at all for refusal. Its good to have mixed communities to stop poor people ending up in Ghettos where social problems spiral. And to stop more relatively more affluent people forgetting that the poor exist. On balance, I think it helps community cohesion - although it can go the other way (if a couple of problem families cause really serious trouble).

Surprise surfuckingprise.

Anyone who complains about new housing should be made to listen to all of max Boyce's back catalogue.

Surprise surfuckingprise.

Anyone who complains about new housing should be made to listen to all of max Boyce's back catalogue.

This. Very much this.

Anyone who complains about new housing should be made to listen to all of max Boyce's back catalogue.

Even serial killers don't deserve that! I think forcing them to camp out in their lovely 'green lung' for a few days would be punishment enough.

How do people feel about this:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/f ... es-cardiff

A proposal to turn City Road and Crwys Road into food districts to boost visitor numbers. I assume it will come with a large clean up operation as they aren't the cleanest or prettiest of streets.

If its not already a food district then what is it?

If its not already a food district then what is it?

Exactly. This seems to be a case of a bunch of middle-class 'foodie' tosspots 'discovering' somewhere the rest of us have always known about.

Marketing the area as a 'food district' would either have no impact at all or, if successful, attract the sort of chain-restaurants these sort of idiots always whinge about.

Leave well alone!