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Zach

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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostSun Jul 30, 2017 5:02 pm

Maybe they know that Bayscape will saturate the market with another couple of hundred luxury apartments and just want to get out before the market corrects.
When you see the kids play houses and prams on the balconies, you just know that vertical luxury living has its draw backs.
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Baysailor

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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostSun Jul 30, 2017 5:55 pm

Dunno, as I've said before these developments are for DINKS and empty nesters, not for children!
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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostMon Jul 31, 2017 8:40 am

Baysailor wrote:Dunno, as I've said before these developments are for DINKS and empty nesters, not for children!


You are correct. However, it really does limit their potential market by a significant amount. I would say at least 75%.
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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostTue Feb 06, 2018 6:55 pm

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/loca ... me-2025845

While searching for something else came across this article from 2012. Now that it's all built have the ghettos appeared?
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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostTue Feb 06, 2018 7:00 pm

Bluegazza wrote:https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/fears-new-200m-waterfront-scheme-2025845

While searching for something else came across this article from 2012. Now that it's all built have the ghettos appeared?


I don't think the social housing flats were ever built.
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Bluegazza

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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostTue Feb 06, 2018 7:04 pm

Aren't they the ones behind bayscape next to the link road?
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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostTue Feb 06, 2018 7:31 pm

Bluegazza wrote:Aren't they the ones behind bayscape next to the link road?


Yeah, the blocks east of Watkiss Way are social housing as is the block between Morrisons and Ferry Road. I think that the recently cleared site next to Ikea is also going to be developed by a housing association.

They're hardly the 'crime ridden ghettos' that the Nimbys were moaning about though.
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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostWed Feb 07, 2018 3:43 pm

Which was the scheme that had the developer wriggle out of its social housing committments by threatening to take its ball home and not build? Was it this one?
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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostSun Feb 11, 2018 10:02 pm

Affordable provision for Cardiff pointe was both ISV Morrisons and the apartments and houses on Watkiss way.
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Re: Cardiff Pointe

PostThu Apr 11, 2019 3:47 pm

The post about Bayscape made me think of Cardiff Pointe - just down the road.

The website (http://www.cardiffpointe.co.uk/index.php) says that all plots are reserved. But is this still the first phase? The phase they've been selling for what seems like 5 years?!

What's going to happen with the rest of the site? What's happening with the ISV? I mean as it stands, if I was one of the people to buy a home there, I'd be pretty disappointed. I'd be living next to a car park and a windswept, scrubby, empty plot. Not sure when I'll next be blighted by development - or whether my home will be permanently in no-mans land and hence worth rather a lot less than I paid (in the expectation it'd be part of a 'thriving community' with 'exciting amenities and attractions' nearby).
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