Cardiff Bay

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Introduction

• One of the most successful redevelopment schemes in UK

• 15 year waterfront development programme

• Leisure, houses, business, retail

Original use

• Start of 20th Century busiest coal port in world

• Declined due to deindustrialisation and closure of Welsh coal mines

• By 1980s – dereliction and decay, high unemployment locally

Scale of project

• Cardiff Bay Development Corporation set up in 1987 to regenerate 1,100 hectares (2700 football pitches)

• £2.4 billion

• 1:4 ratio of public to private money

• Also wanted to connect city centre with the waterfront – distance of about a mile

Barrage

• Major feature is Cardiff Bay Barrage to enclose a clean fresh water area to act as centrepiece to the development

• Europe’s largest city centre waterfront – 13 km of waterfront around the bay

End of UDC

• The UDC ended in 2000 and responsibility now lies with Welsh Assembly which has its new building on the waterfront in Cardiff Bay

Achievements to date

• See handout

• Also Welsh assembly building and Wales Millennium Centre – an arts and cultural centre

Future Developments

• More shops, businesses, houses etc

• £700 m International Sports’ Village

• Ferry Road peninsular – Business Park which may employ up to 3000 people.