Llanishen tax offices to close

if it's true that wag have been lobbying the westminster parliament for the hmrc office to be based in cardiff with the loss of over three hundred jobs from swansea then it's a national scandal especially when swansea voted yes to devolution and are now being stabbed in the back by the assembly.

Call me naive but is there any reason why WAG would lobby in favour of one Welsh city against another? Makes no sense to me. Cardiff council on the other hand.......

if it's true that wag have been lobbying the westminster parliament for the hmrc office to be based in cardiff with the loss of over three hundred jobs from swansea then it's a national scandal especially when swansea voted yes to devolution and are now being stabbed in the back by the assembly.

Ahem. £450 million for a new Swansea Uni campus, probably another couple of hundred mill for the new UWTSD campus at SA1, Swansea isn't exactly getting shortchanged.

And I very much doubt that the Welsh Government lobbied against Swansea, the Business Minister is the AM for Gower, in case you'd forgotten.

Whilst it makes some sense to have government departments/offices clustered together, I would be very disappointed if the Central Square development becomes dominated public sector tenants.

To me, the point of this new development and indeed the wider enterprise zone, centred round the station with a promise of an electrified line to London, is to entice private business into the capital. Look around Bristol Temple Meads and you see companies like Price Waterhouse Coopers based there. They are the sort of companies we should be attracting, let’s grow the financial, business and legal sectors. Let’s also use the strength of our universities to grow high-tech firms too.
http://www.bristoltemplequarter.com/

At least two, maybe three(?) of the large buildings at Temple Meads are wholly let to public sector tenants. 2 Rivergate alone holds Ofsted, Cabinet Office, Public Health England and a whole bunch of other government agencies with more in Temple Quay House.

The only confirmed public sector tenants so far are at the Capital Quarter, not Central Square. Clustering government departments makes sense in many ways, especially doing so close to transport links.

The only confirmed public sector tenants so far are at the Capital Quarter, not Central Square. Clustering government departments makes sense in many ways, especially doing so close to transport links.

Well that depends on whether you count the BBC as being in the public sector!

With office rents being what they are in central London and the impossibilty of having a decent standard of living there on a squeezed public sector wage I think could well see a wave of relocations to Cardiff, Brizzle, Brum and the like.

[quote="At least two, maybe three(?) of the large buildings at Temple Meads are wholly let to public sector tenants. 2 Rivergate alone holds Ofsted, Cabinet Office, Public Health England and a whole bunch of other government agencies with more in Temple Quay House.

The only confirmed public sector tenants so far are at the Capital Quarter, not Central Square. Clustering government departments makes sense in many ways, especially doing so close to transport links.[/quote]

I wasn't suggesting that the Temple Quay area was devoid of public services, but if you look around that area there are a lot of finanical-type companies. PwC being one I mentioned, there's also RBS, Bank of Ireland, HSBC, Deloitte, QBE, Canada Life etc. There are plenty of other private sector buisiness there too:
http://www.templequay-bristol.com/occup ... occupiers/

I don't think HMRC would be a bad idea and I made the point of saying the clustering government departments had its merits. But I was just making the point that I would like to see a lot more private sector businesses coming to Cardiff. It's not just good for the economy, but it's important to help retain some of our best and brightest by providing opportunities.