Cardiff tower plan for demolished Guildford Crescent venues

[LeningradCowboy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56170991

Developers want to build a 29-storey apartment block on the controversial city centre site where a music venue and restaurants once stood.

[City123]

Just what Cardiff needs, more flats

[goats]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56170991

Developers want to build a 29-storey apartment block on the controversial city centre site where a music venue and restaurants once stood.

Just 29 floors....they are about to open up the canal on Churchill way too. So many houses and flats being built, the brains brewery site is huge too

[Kind of Blue]

Hadn’t realised Gwdihw was no more, that’s a shame.

[xsnaggle]

Tsk tsk. Deary me! apartments not flats mate! Apartments!!!!!

[WJ99mobile]

Just what Cardiff needs, more flats

It probably does.

Cities thrive on high density highly connected places

I think they could have done better here though and will be a shame

[Cleve van Leef]

Worked there in one of those buildings from 1963-1965, J.K. White Motor Factors. Memories of my youth.

[Majorblue]

Why are developers allowed to rip the heart of city centres and replace them with these soulless and mostly inappropriate buildings? One of Cardiff’s charms was the mix of housing/ retail stock but that is slowly being eroded.
I accept that change is natural as a city expands but just look at the monstrosities that have been put up in recent years.

[blue matt]

Why are developers allowed to rip the heart of city centres and replace them with these soulless and mostly inappropriate buildings? One of Cardiff’s charms was the mix of housing/ retail stock but that is slowly being eroded.
I accept that change is natural as a city expands but just look at the monstrosities that have been put up in recent years.

cash, the developer might build 20 social houses and a community centre somewhere as a trade-off

[City123]

It probably does.

Cities thrive on high density highly connected places

I think they could have done better here though and will be a shame

What's the point of a city with nothing in it? Developers are hell bent on ripping any kind of originality out of the city to be replaced by soulless identikit blocks, Cardiff Council won't be happy until Cardiff is one long string of apartment blocks and chain restaurants