General Developments

Queen Street is trending on Twitter across the UK – but not for a good reason.

Savills are marketing the redevelopment of merchant place in the bay. I can't see any info on their website but saw an advert in the free around town magazine

This is what they submitted to the Planning Committee.

Following on from philnpt's post on the Central Sq forum I had a poke around on the Holder Mathias site and stumbled across these plans for Church Street, not sure if they have been posted previously...

http://www.holdermathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Church-St-Cardiff_-Design-Review-2015-Holder-Mathias-Architects.pdf

Interesting there is a small Cinema in the plan!

Its definitely better than whats there, but i think something a bit more historical looking would be better with upper storey sash windows to compliment to village / historic image of this street and area. I dont know how succesfula cinema would be there though?

I think this is the planning application for the above development.
http://planning.cardiff.gov.uk/online-a ... APR_117808

Its definitely better than whats there, but i think something a bit more historical looking would be better with upper storey sash windows to compliment to village / historic image of this street and area. I dont know how succesfula cinema would be there though?

Apparently not very successful: it has been removed from the plans according to the D&A statement for that planning application.

The cinema they showed only had 2 screens - which suggests they were targetting an operator like "Picturehouse": https://www.picturehouses.com/cinemas.

But with the Chapter playing something of that role in Cardiff, and the 4 other cinemas in the city - which since the arrival of Premiere are now charging quite a bit less than in most cities - it seems they couldn't make the numbers add up.

Instead, there are now proposals for a roof terrace, behind a sort of 'fake' pitched roof. Not sure why they still have the pretence of an extra floor - I woulda thought views from the roof terrace to the street and church would be nice.

I noticed the Central market has been revealed after a spruce up!

20161010_132321 by Stephen Anstiss, on Flickr

20161010_132246 by Stephen Anstiss, on Flickr

It looks great, shame about the Paddy Power signage.