Peiriannydd wrote:They were still largely responsible for the boring, unimaginative developments that replaced them.
Well there's truth in that of course but it's worth remembering that, unlike English developement corporations in the same period, CBDC was not the planning authority. Those powers remained with the local authority so the then councillors should shoulder at least part of the blame. It's also true to say that many of the worst examples of poorly designed developments in the Bay were built after CBDC was wound up in 2000.
I suspect our views aren't too far apart on the quality of many of the developments from that period but I do credit CBDC with getting some things right, noteably by insisting that the A4232 link road be should buried underground, a fight won against heavyweight Welsh Office opposition