BBC Wales Building Central Square

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

This is another thing , why do they have to shove that thing right in everyone's faces ?

I thought Llandaff was fine , tucked out of the way out there ?

Everytime I see that all I can think of is Derek Brockway , the daft rugby adverts and crappy second rate regional comedy and drama

[AfricanBluebird]

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This is another thing , why do they have to shove that thing right in everyone's faces ?

I thought Llandaff was fine , tucked out of the way out there ?

Everytime I see that all I can think of is Derek Brockway , the daft rugby adverts and crappy second rate regional comedy and drama

My son works there.

I suspect they moved it so visitors from London can get off the train and into the BBC building and not have to mingle with us... In and out.

I thought it was fine in Llandaff

[bobh]

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They should have built it on stilts and put the bus station underneath

[RichardM]

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They should have built it on stilts and put the bus station underneath

That's what they are doing with the building almost next door.

[RichardM]

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My son works there.

I suspect they moved it so visitors from London can get off the train and into the BBC building and not have to mingle with us... In and out.

I thought it was fine in Llandaff

The building in Llandaff was spread over two sites, one each side of the road and was getting on for 60 years old. It was unsuitable for modern broadcasting and it was simpler to build a new building than try to modernise the old one.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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The building in Llandaff was spread over two sites, one each side of the road and was getting on for 60 years old. It was unsuitable for modern broadcasting and it was simpler to build a new building than try to modernise the old one.

It's got that corporate , professional look which is everything bbc Wales are not

[light up the darkness]

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If the BBC was self funded this is not likely to have have happened

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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If the BBC was self funded this is not likely to have have happened

Are BBC Wales saying they couldn't make ....in their view top class TV ......if they hadn't moved from Llandaff?

[LeningradCowboy]

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It's strange that the new BBC Wales building has car parking facilities, unlike pretty much every other new development in the city centre.

[The Bloop]

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Are BBC Wales saying they couldn't make ....in their view top class TV ......if they hadn't moved from Llandaff?

With all the new houses being built further up Llantrisant Road, the chances of Derek getting to work on time to tell us about his Pembrokeshire dangler, would be difficult.

[Rjk]

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If the BBC was self funded this is not likely to have have happened

didn't itv move their Cardiff operation not that long ago as well?

[the other bob wilson]

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What's the latest with the new bus station? I'm completely out of touch with those sort of things now I'm a valleyite.

[The Bloop]

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The new BBC Wales building cost about £100m - £120m. The new Eastenders set alone cost £87m. I know which I think is better value.

The new bus station Bob is bring built as part of another building nearer Cardiff Central (just to the right i think). It will have 14 bays.

[JamesWales]

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I love the building. It's great that Cardiff is finally having a streetscape outside the main station befitting a capital city.

Shame the city centre is dead and the trains are half empty, but at least it looks better!

[the other bob wilson]

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The new BBC Wales building cost about £100m - £120m. The new Eastenders set alone cost £87m. I know which I think is better value.

The new bus station Bob is bring built as part of another building nearer Cardiff Central (just to the right i think). It will have 14 bays.

Thanks, so we must be looking at around ten years without a proper bus station by the time the new one is finished mustn't we? I've been out of Cardiff for four years now and it seemed like as long again without a bus station while I still lived there.