Re: Cardiff LDP Progress
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 3:49 pm
Those houses look like Thornhill in the 1980s, not an ounce of design or any interesting features, crap basically.
Karl wrote:I'm not sure what you expected. This is a Persimmon development in a very suburban location. The architecture was always going to be cookie cutter guff.
RandomComment wrote:I would have thought something more than a single convenience store would have been useful too. However, the developers would probably have looked into this in considerable detail. It always sounds nice to potential occupants if you can highlight local amenities like a hairdresser, etc. Given that, the developer must have thought there was such a high chance the units would struggle to attract an occupier, that they decided not to go ahead. Look at the struggle at Celestia, despite the nearby day time office staff too, and what must be approaching a similar number of units in Celestia and Adventurer's Quay combined.
Mr Blue Sky wrote:What struck me was the almost total absence of pedestrians in the area. I did see a man plodding through the mud on a roadside verge, in an Alan Partridge-like manner. If people in St Edeyrns want to use the facilities at the Pontprennau retail park or at Cardiff gate services they will have to drive - it isn't safe to walk or cycle.
murfilicious wrote:Mr Blue Sky wrote:What struck me was the almost total absence of pedestrians in the area. I did see a man plodding through the mud on a roadside verge, in an Alan Partridge-like manner. If people in St Edeyrns want to use the facilities at the Pontprennau retail park or at Cardiff gate services they will have to drive - it isn't safe to walk or cycle.
Never thought I'd be defending Pontprennau here but I'm going to try - the reason you never see any pedestrians in the area is because there are footpaths away from the major roads (using old country lanes I believe) and up until recently there were no footpaths on the Pentwyn Link Road. So if you had somebody living down near the A48 interchange who wanted to get to Cardiff Gate Retail Park, they wouldn't walk along side the busy Link Road because they know about the routes through the housing estates behind.
It's the same for the business park, if you take a walk around it at lunch time (and I often do as I work here) there are literally hundreds of people walking, almost all to the retail park. But again, you wont see them along side the link road because there is a footpath between the business park and retail park away from the main roads.
The proposed layout for St Edeyrn's Village shows a number of footpaths linking into these existing footpaths, and a new series of pedestrian crossings have been built around the roundabout on the link road. There are also plans to extend the existing bus service in the area (currently terminates outside Asda) into St Edeyrn's.
I think, in fairness to Persimmon, they've not done too bad a job... Again, I've seen worse