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It's looks like private car ownership will soon be obsolete for the middle classes and below.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...entre-26714766
I remember reading when they started building the BBC headquarters outside the railway station, that it would lead to a price hike in Riverside. It will happen - might take a while, but little things like this (driving out the cheapo shops) will only help it along. Those big houses on the river would be snatched up, if the area was just a little 'nicer'.
Darlinghurst is swanky now I hear, I used to live there….was a rough walk everyday through King’s Cross down William street to work and back. Saw some sights like I’ve never seen, hookers, trannys, hooker trannys, rent boys, smack heads, street kids and loose units 24 hrs a day…..they cleaned up the cross too too didn’t they?
The Council plans lacked any thought. There is nowhere to park - so why would anybody go visit the place. The people who live are at the lower end of the economic scale and Im guessing without much disposal income so. So well done the council - they cleaned the place up a bit (over budget and behind schedule I'd think) and at the same time killed off just about any visiting trade.
Anyone who has been there after dark - it's not very pleasant - unless you want to see drunks and smackheads off their heads, I can do that in Canton... A bad job, badly done with consequences that your typical council worker couldn't careless about.
Bits of Darlinghurst losing the roughness back in 93, not just a few houses, but one 1/2 of the end of a road, it was fascinating to see
yep, agree with Kings X, a sight to be seen all the time, 24 hours a day, think we have spoken before about and you said when you went back ( I think ) Kings X had cleaned up, they must have made improvements for Sydney 2000
Cathedral road had plenty of run down properties on it even up until the late eighties,smashed windows, a few squats and sectioned off into shitty bedsits. There's a cardiff landlord who took advantage of the grants scheme during that period ( A bit too much) who did very well down there.
in larger cities you'd certainly think so with riversides location, but Cardiff and South Wales in general seems strangely resistant to gentrification, I can't think of too many areas that have changed that significantly in my lifetime.
ok the bay and st Mellons perhaps (whatever the opposite of gentrification is) but those were the result of significant external factors.
even towns like Caerphilly or pontypridd that you might think would be ripe for gentrification over the years, but it just doesn't seem to really happen
Riverside also has quite a lot of low quality, small housing which probably doesn't help it, and the local schools aren't great which will keep many people away.