General Developments

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this article on St Patrick's Day :-

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/st ... 14030.html

I'm so glad to see that the picture of the Millennium Centre is titled Cardiff, England. The Independent obviously might need geography lessons!

No words for that, if it was an American paper I wouldn't be overly surprised.

Winning design of Bristol's £91m arena announced yesterday. Cardiff need to catch up



http://populous.com/news/2015/03/17/pop ... tol-arena/

Winning design of Bristol's £91m arena announced yesterday. Cardiff need to catch up



http://populous.com/news/2015/03/17/pop ... tol-arena/

You will be aware the Welsh public sector are involved. Man will be an unrecognisable species before all the various studies, assessments and consultations have been completed, that's before we get shovels in the ground.

Terry Matthews decides he wants a conference centre and there it is - signed and and ready to go. Yet some think the public sector or state is better than the private sector at making the right decisions we need to push our economy forward.

There is an application for a 9 storey residential block on the site of the Municipal Club in City Road. It's next door to the existing tower block currently used by Cardiff and Vale College which I think is 11 storeys. With the CAVC facility opening in Dumballs Rd later this year I was willing to bet money that the exiting tower block in City Rd would have been sold for a residential/student conversion anyway.

I'm not sure I like the idea of City Rd building upwards. It's got a fairly uniform scalke at the moment and although there are some buildings that are in need of renovation and a few old car lots that could do with redeveloping it's coming along quite nicely. I think the existing tower is very incongruous particularly as it abuts the Tredegarville area which I think is a conservation area.

You will be aware the Welsh public sector are involved. Man will be an unrecognisable species before all the various studies, assessments and consultations have been completed, that's before we get shovels in the ground.

Terry Matthews decides he wants a conference centre and there it is - signed and and ready to go. Yet some think the public sector or state is better than the private sector at making the right decisions we need to push our economy forward.

There's absolutely nothing stopping the private sector building a new arena in Cardiff, what are the thrusting entrepreneurs of Wales waiting for?

I'm not sure I like the idea of City Rd building upwards. It's got a fairly uniform scalke at the moment and although there are some buildings that are in need of renovation and a few old car lots that could do with redeveloping it's coming along quite nicely. I think the existing tower is very incongruous particularly as it abuts the Tredegarville area which I think is a conservation area.

I agree. There is a danger of the southern end of City Road suffering the same sort of development as the southern end on Cathedral Road did some decades ago in what was probably the worst bit of architectural vandalism in Cardiff's history. The City Road buildings themselves aren't in the same league as the ones demolished in Cathedral Road but as Karl points out they abut a very fine cluster of buildings in Tredegerville and would cut across a very nice bohemian vibe that's developing in that part of town.

It will be intersting to see how Tredegerville develops if /when CAVC move out. I presume Cardiff Uni have their eye on the old Cardiff High / Bryntaf / Glan Hafren building on the Parade but the whole area could do with a general upgrade. There are some fantastic buildings dotted around that area - the original university science block, the Mansion House, the Catholic and former Unitarian churches as well as the High School building itself.

You will be aware the Welsh public sector are involved. Man will be an unrecognisable species before all the various studies, assessments and consultations have been completed, that's before we get shovels in the ground.

Terry Matthews decides he wants a conference centre and there it is - signed and and ready to go. Yet some think the public sector or state is better than the private sector at making the right decisions we need to push our economy forward.

There's absolutely nothing stopping the private sector building a new arena in Cardiff, what are the thrusting entrepreneurs of Wales waiting for?

Money?

You will be aware the Welsh public sector are involved. Man will be an unrecognisable species before all the various studies, assessments and consultations have been completed, that's before we get shovels in the ground.

Terry Matthews decides he wants a conference centre and there it is - signed and and ready to go. Yet some think the public sector or state is better than the private sector at making the right decisions we need to push our economy forward.

There's absolutely nothing stopping the private sector building a new arena in Cardiff, what are the thrusting entrepreneurs of Wales waiting for?

They aren't waiting. They are building one in zooport

Newport is in the Cardiff Capital Region so to me Cardiff is getting a new conference centre, but then I've always thought of the whole area as some sort of Greater Cardiff.