Reply With QuoteWhy?Originally Posted by WJ99mobile
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Don’t disagree with providing a % of the profits as contributions towards affordable housing but having developers provide the actual housing in high value housing is a massive bugbear of mine
Why?
Male, female and mixed.
Car parking will not be from Level 3 down as there is no provision for any parking in the plans, not even disabled parking. 29 storey building and NO parking places. It's crazy.
Did this involve a series of looped carriageways around the city part of which was Aberporth Road in gabalfa, which is why it's a wide dual carriageway?
It's not crazy. People wont be able to have a car, and if they do they're going to have to park up in Splott, Adamsdown or Butetown if they want a free space, that's a bit of a stretch and not very likely. How will it cause problems when nobody is allowed to park in that area anyway. It's central, so i'm guessing the people that end up living there will use public transport or will walk to work. Exactly what we need.
Don't you mean Gabalfa Avenue?
I do 🙂
The same in Ely, Grand Avenue. Lovely space between the houses. Maybe that's just how they built back then, with space and a decent sized garden. It went shits up when they built Llanedeyrn and Pentwyn. I grew up in those areas and they're shitholes.
It will look crap. Just look at the Altolusso. It looks awful
It does not blend at all
Why should there be social housing on nice estates where people work their arse off to afford a nicer place to live
I don't think it's supposed to blend, that would defeat the whole purpose of it i would've thought. It's difficult to make the connection between the new and the old on the Altolusso. They look like seperate buildings, although that obviously changes when you enter the building. Isn't that the intention of the design?
Disabled people have as much right to live in a nice place. They may have worked their arses off too. Or do you not want us living next to you and lowering the tone?
People in social housing don't work their arses off??
Had swimming classes with my school there. All three pools were used for beginners, kids who could swim a width and kids who could swim a length.
Developers knock down facade of historic Cardiff buildings in Guildford Crescent without planning permission
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...-city-27656387
Condo, keep up
They'd need ten different pools now!
Doesn't sound a smart move from them.
Can't say the facade was ever something I noticed apart from the paint. Just looked a bit like terraced housing didn't it? Maybe I'm wrong.
I took part in the demo opposing the demolition of Guildford Crescent. There was a huge turnout and we were quite optimistic having fought off the attempts to close down the clubs in Womanby Street. When it looked like we had won again we were understanding cockahoop. When Rapport knocked down all but the facade it became apparent we hadn't won at all. It looks ridiculous and I can't see a 29 story apartment block making it look any worse.
I remember this so clearly even though I must have only been 6 years old at the time and in particular the CentrePlan 70 ‘shop front’ in Queens Street (as shown in the Wales On Line story)
Can you imagine if it has gone ahead? :-/
This is an extraordinary turn of events. The facades have been kept up for several years.
I always thought that that there were three pools as well! I think that I always went in the mixed one.
I learnt to swim there but it always has an ominous feel to it for some reason….
It is hard to believe that they fitted 3 separate pools into what felt like such a confined space.
Vending machines with OXO crisps
The developers probably made them unsafe so they could claim they were unsafe.
I hope someone senior at the developers get's locked up for this
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