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paul_alexanderMon 03/03/08 23:16

I went to Cardiff this weekend with Terry partly for the OUT weekend and to visit my parents who live nearby.

It is a few years since I have visited Cardiff and I was rather bemused by the redevelopment of the city centre. A whole vast swathe of the south central district has been ripped out, the scale of building is colossal something more appropriate to Canary Wharf in London. I do not think it is sympathetic and going by other completed developments of city apartments, out of proportion and sometimes ugly.

Huge developments of the sort mostly funded by private enterprise I think often have a sterilising effect on city centres, they get to control the areas and they become a wasteland out of commercial hours. And they suck finance and attention away from other areas - a lot of the rest the centre of Cardiff looked rather shabby. It is as if we have learned nothing from the 60s.

Now I do not think all new developments are bad - the areas down from Atlantic Dock to Cardiff Bay were in much need of investment and the results are I think very positive (though some of the residential areas were a bit sterile and the flats too small).

I am though of the opinion that much of the redevelopment of Cardiff was as much a result of lax and speculative development from loose credit that would not have happened otherwise. I understand that Leeds, Nottingham, Manchester and Liverpool to name a few have suffered in a similar way.

I have an awful feeling some of this redevelopment will not be completed and that these will either remain unfinished building sites or that local authorities will be left to pick up the pieces because of the sudden reduction of business credit. Though I hope not.

paul_alexanderMon 03/03/08 23:46

I am bumping this - it needs a response.

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