Things that never got built

I know they were weather-proofed a few years ago but the interiors of both the old Post Office and the Cory building must be deteriorating pretty badly. I suspect that only the facades will be saved when and if anything happens on the site. Wasn't there some talk of a hotel on part of the site?

I've wondered that. But at the same time, they must be doing something to keep those buildings as they are still being marketed for rental.

Observation Tower Cardiff Bay



Bayscape ISV - and although hopefully I'm still wrong, but in all fairness it's been a long time now that we've looked out for this one...



(mind you I've only given up on the glass needle coz they've gone and put something else there! )

ISV Casino if we'd have won that bid...

An early plan for the sports village featuring an athletics stadium... I believe there was even a proposal to relocate Cardiff City down there at one point!

A real oldie - Centreplan 70. Thank God this never happened!

Yes thankfully that never happened, we'd be Swindon or Croydon if it had

An early plan for the sports village featuring an athletics stadium... I believe there was even a proposal to relocate Cardiff City down there at one point!

God, I'm glad that wasn't built. Look at all the open-air car parking. When would these plans have been from? Late 1990s? Its amazing that just in the short period between the late 90s and the mid 2000s that there was this big shift from low rise car-centric developments to higher rise, higher density developments.

Although it would be good to see some real progress on the sports village site...

And looking at Centreplan 70 - it seems to suggest that the Valleylines would be no more. There is a "Bus Station" where Queen St station is, and no mention of the train station. Was the plan for some sort of segregated bus way on the lines of the old railway tracks?

In some sense such a system would have been more flexible than the Valleys line services we have. It would be easier to install exta capacity, and easier to extend services to areas off the current network - they could use regular roads to get up the Rhondda Fach, or Sirhowy, say.

What are the drawbacks of such busways? I guess capacity of individual vehicles, although you make up for that by increasing frequency (although that means extra drivers of course). Is it the capacity of stations? That they cannot handle the more frequent services required to match passenger capacity?

Yes thankfully that never happened, we'd be Swindon or Croydon if it had

Or worse still.. Swansea!

God, I'm glad that wasn't built. Look at all the open-air car parking. When would these plans have been from? Late 1990s? Its amazing that just in the short period between the late 90s and the mid 2000s that there was this big shift from low rise car-centric developments to higher rise, higher density developments.

Although it would be good to see some real progress on the sports village site...

I'm not sure if these are the plans but if I recall correctly the original plans for the Millenium Stadium involved relocating the Cardiff club/regional ground to Ferry Road.