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Some of my favourite lost architecture of Cardiff - 1) Boots Queen St
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Good thing The Vulcan was moved. With it gone, the land has really reached its full potential.
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Muslim community in Butetown/Tiger Bay has been here for almost 200 years. One of the oldest multicultural communities in the UK. Woven into our history since mid 19th Century. Online bigots who know nothing about the history & communities of Cardiff/Wales should pick up a book.
Islamic chants being blasted at full volume from a mosque in Cardiff, the capital of Wales.
This is unacceptable. This is Britain, not Saudi Arabia. We are a Christian nation.
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I think the people of Roath/Plasnewydd are right to be weary of more demolition.
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Cathays Station being something like the 6th busiest in all of Wales - and it looks like this.
Nearly a million users pre-pandemic and you can't even cross between platforms with a wheelchair.
How???
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Unless you're prepared to do regular upkeep STOP using white render on new builds next to busy roads in wet climates. Mediterranean?👍 Wales?❌
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Went with a friend to look at houses in Barry today.
Why does every new development feel like you're walking through a tarmaced supermarket car park with a few houses dotted around?
Huge swathes of prime land given to developers, and they just churn out lifeless, car dependent 💩
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Living in the "blanket" 20mph Welsh hellscape...
16.5 mile drive from Cardiff Airport in the Vale of Glamorgan to Roath Park in Cardiff
Approx
5.4 miles - 70mph
5.3 miles - 50mph
3.5 miles - 40mph
0.5 miles - 30mph
1.6 miles - 20mph
Less than 10% of my journey was 20mph...
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Cardiff Queen Street
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For new-builds, these in Pontcanna don't look too bad? Never noticed them before.
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Lived in Cardiff all my life but cant say Im too familiar with Grangetown, but just finding out theres an old traditional farmhouse just chilling at the end of a row of terraces, Grade II listed with an 800+ year history as a farm right in the middle of Grangetown? Thats amazing!
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Cardiff did until Facebook had a meltdown
Just stop & think about this — what if YOUR city transformed a key main street (like Montreal has with
#MontRoyal
, actually one of TEN such street transformations this summer) into a 2.5km long pedestrian promenade & living room with 2700 seats? Thanks for the tip
@JeanBeaudoin_
!
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Cardiff deserves a dedicated Tiger Bay/Docklands Museum.
A branch of the Museum of Cardiff that just focuses on the full history of the docks, it's role, it's communities, it's redevelopment would be so interesting.
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Developer: Lovely street of Grade II listed Victorian houses + theatre you have there in this Conservation Area of yours. Would be a shame if someone built, say, a 17 storey block of student flats on the end, rather than something to scale with the area?
Cardiff Council: APPROVE!
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Beautiful shots of Butlins Barry Island in her heyday by Edmund Nagele. As a fan of mid-century design this is very pleasing.
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The fact that a significant number of people in Cardiff would rather see Castle St revert back to the dirty, loud, polluted, congested, dangerous eyesore in front of our landmarks - and the council has it up for consultation - genuinely worries me for future + how selfish we are.
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Cardiff has so many examples of beautiful buildings ruined by ugly, cheap shopfronts. St Mary St in particular.
Cardiff Market for example could look so much smarter with something like this: traditional shopfronts that properly connect with the upper building.
(and awnings)
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Repurposing the space outside City Hall as a pedestrian square rather than car storage could be nice...
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Beautiful buildings are still there, hidden under shoddy renovations, cheap shopfronts & junk.
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How big of a red flag is it if an architect draws up plans only using Comic-Sans?
@PlanningShit
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Just a reminder that Wellfield Road existed + thrived as a local shopping street before the popularity of the automobile. It’s entire future existence isn’t wholly dependant on the 40 or so parking spaces. Wellfield Road isn’t going anywhere.
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Cathays has some beautiful old houses. It's a shame so many have fallen into the hands of slum landlords and been allowed to decay so badly.
This one on Glynrhondda St was formerly a hospital founded by nuns.
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Genuinely getting to the point where I’m embarassed to show people around Cardiff - almost entirely because of the out of control filth everywhere.
Not even just Cathays. Its the city centre, the bay, the parks, the Taff. Every community.
Feels like it gets worse every year.
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If you want to trigger real anger from me in 3 words - Queen Street Station
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I love Cardiff. Lived here all my life.
But walking around lately; seeing flytipping, filth, grotty shops, uncared for houses, crumbling pavements, traffic everywhere. Visible decline.
For the 1st time in my life Ive been finding myself asking “is there where I want to live?”.
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The off centre window and the 3 scraps of ornamentation left behind really set this one off
@PlanningShit
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Another landmark Cardiff pub looks to be demolished. The Rompney Castle in Rumney, built in 1872. With tales of it being a favourite among pirates, bought by the wife of an American ambassador + remodelled in the 19th century, a long colourful history set to become rubble.
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@cardiffcouncil
In what way is ripping out a kerb-less, long established, shared space street designed to prioritise pedestrians & accessibility - and replacing it with kerbs, a tarmacked road and pushing pedestrians back onto packed, narrow pavements “Levelling Up”?
This is a huge step back…
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Wellington House in Wimbledon.
Retains 80% of the original buildings structural frame.
Full demolition isn't always necessary to create something new & beautiful.
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Maybe it's just nostalgia, but Cardiff Council had much better branding in the 90s.
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So glad we allowed the demolition of the Poets Corner.
Look at all the exciting, community strengthening housing & businesses that have thrived over the last 7 years...
Those property developers & the planning system really have our best interests at heart 😍
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AI generated Cardiff streets made a bit more Dutch.
(Wellfield Rd, Castle St, Bute St, Windsor Pl)
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It's surprising how little Cardiff makes of it's riverfront.
Fitzhamon Embankment for example.
Far more road than necessary. Could make one way, double pavement width & create more space for markets & make it a place people want to spend time, rather than just pass through...
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This little old building on St Andrews Pl was adorable! Look at that little tower. Would've looked lovely renovated. What replaced it? Not so adorable.
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It's wild to me that this whole block of Westgate Street, probably some of the most prime space in Cardiff, directly facing the stadium, huge crowds passing by - is wholly for car storage & completely dead at street level.
No bars. No restaurants. No shops. Nothing.
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Bike shops in Canton, Roath, Grangetown & Adamsdown.
Cardiff was a cycling city.
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Reminder that almost half of households in Plasnewydd (48.3%) & nearby Cathays (49.1%) & Adamsdown (48.1%) have NO access to a car.
Some of the lowest rates of car ownership not just in Cardiff but in Wales.
Improving pedestrian, cycling & public transport is essential & fair.
📣 Construction work has begun on the first phase of Cardiff’s Roath Park cycleway. As well as delivering a new cycleway around Roath Park Recreational Ground, the work will see improvements to footways, highway junctions, and bus travel 🧵
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One of my favourite comparison shots of Cardiff. Roath Park over 100 years apart. The crown jewel of
#roath
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15) Poets Corner Pub City Road (Insult to injury, torn down in 2016 for student accommodation which has yet to materialise)
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Newport - Cardiff - Penarth - Barry would be cool
One of the minor delights of the Netherlands is how easily you can cycle not just within cities, but between them.
This is between Rotterdam and Delft on the way to the Hague; about an hour’s ride and car-free most of the way
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61 objections in 4 days to the proposed demolition of the Roath Park pub! Community has sat back + watched too many of our local landmarks be approved for demolition to benefit developers while problems in the area get worse. I think we've had enough now.
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People discussing the name of this new chip shop on Caroline St.
But thing that rubs me the wrong way is the branding.
Why try and replicate a London street sign? This is Cardiff. Feels lazy.
Caroline St has multiple street sign designs you could pull from if you wanted to.
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The Gaiety on City Road would have been a perfect location for an O2 Academy type venue.
Close to town & students in Cathays, on bus route (& train soon), lots of businesses around it etc.
Boost music scene in Cardiff, Cardiff's profile, local economy in Plasnewydd.
Instead...
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Another viral Tiktok showing disgusting state of Cathays
"Bin hubs" like in Glasgow need to be trialled
-Better protection from birds/rats over bags
-Removes obstructions from pavements
-More efficient for waste teams & time saved means hubs can be emptied multiple times a week
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Easily my favourite example of the decline of the public realm in Cardiff. Anybody who knows this junction on Newport Road knows how bad it is. Just a completely car choked thoroughly unpleasant space. But in 1900? Trees. Benches. Parents not fearing for their kids. Progress eh.
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I couldn't picture where this photo had been taken, I couldn't recognise any of it.
I only figured it out because of the very faint street sign for George St (which no longer exists), and researching the shop Bowles & Son, who owned 9 James St (also no longer exists).
Shocking.
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Meanwhile, major gateway in to Cardiff city centre from the East - a grotty, dark polluted railway bridge with a dirty, faded 20+ year old mural.
Great first impression and accurate representation of our capital city.
Why nothing has been done I’ll never know. Embarrassing.
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Whenever I see the excellent renewal work done on the Welsh Streets in Liverpool, I often find myself thinking of old Butetown.
I wonder what Butetown would have been like if, instead of flattening everything, we repaired the houses, kept the streets, didnt scatter the community
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Read the apartment block at junction of Lower Cathedral Rd & Cowbridge Rd E has been approved.
Row of shops on the corner don't have much architectural merit - but the 4 houses approved for demolition (just outside conservation area) is a terrible waste.
Restore, adapt & reuse.
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Always sad passing Whitchurch Hospital as it continues to rot. Any news on redevelopment?
A friend suggested it would make a good university campus. Grand building, lots of wings for various departments, buildings all linked together, lots of green space, train station close by
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Whatever this style is called (boxes w/ obnoxious, loud, cheap cladding arranged in a way to give you a migraine & every window misaligned) that has been popular for the last 15 years or so.
Can we stop?
Seems its fading out in favour of brick, but Cardiff is still building it.
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Had a walk around Rhiwbina Garden Village today.
I think one of the reasons why it's so lovely is almost every single front garden is still first and foremost a GARDEN, not a hard landscaped driveway.
One step out of the conservation area & almost every garden is paved over.
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Work is too far along to stop/change Roath Rec Cycleway. Rather than listing problems - here are my solutions
-Paint lamp posts black
-Planting/wildflowers Ninian Rd side
-Trees on field side
-Resurface pedestrian sections in lighter colour tarmac
Not perfect, but its better.
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Rough mock of what I'd love to see around the parks in Roath. For drivers, residents parking bays. For pedestrians, cars off the pavement. For cyclists, a segregated cycleway. One-way system with narrower lanes to end the Roath Park Speedway. Something like that would be great.
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Just spent ~£100 on Wellfield Road this morning. Parked in the Library car park after getting my MOT, walked down, got cakes/coffee/sandwiches/veg/pastries, went to the bank/pharmacy, nice to chat with the traders I know. Lots of outdoor seating. Go down there and support them!
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1892 plans for Roath Park Wild Gardens, Lake, Pleasure Gardens & Recreation Ground.
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So many redundant, hard landscaped spaces in the middle of dual carriageways, like this, that need to be greened over & used for more trees...
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Instead we’re getting Lego City, w cheap materials that already look dated & have no connection to history of the site, and the only remaining original structures completely swamped and overshadowed.
Handed prime site w long history & just built some generic, fast fashion boxes.
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Pedestrianise the road/car park outside Cardiff City Hall & Museum please.
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Roath in Cardiff - where this was partially filmed - has been 20mph since 2014, almost a DECADE ago 🙄
Here's how people across Wales feel about the 20mph default speed limit one month on
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Spotted this lovely old shop sign on City Road, revealed after modern signage was removed.
160 City Road - Newburys Stores
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18) Loudoun Square - Heart of the old multicultural Tiger Bay. Seen as a slum so demolished (despite originally built for the wealthy) and replaced with tower blocks. One of the oldest and most diverse communities in the world at the time, split up and scattered across the city.
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Visited a friend in Grangetown today, I honestly forget what a fantastic job was done with the streets in the Greener Grangetown scheme. Can get frustrated with some of the decision making in Cardiff sometimes, but this was a slam dunk.
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It's a minor thing, but I hate how the vehicle damaged paving on the corner of Queen/St John/Castle St has just been tarmacked over rather than been relaid.
Paving is important when it comes to signifying pedestrian spaces & gives certainty that pedestrians have priority.
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Some amateur city planning I was working on a while ago, redesigning the bottom of Alfred St on Albany Rd in Roath. Only real purpose is as a rat-run, cars dangerously swing in off Albany into the path of pedestrians. Close it + it could be a much more pleasant/useful/safer space
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In Cardiff
- No dedicated secure bicycle parking facility in the City Centre
- No cycle hangars in residential areas
- Cycleways rolled out incredibly slowly
- Built Cycleways poorly linked up
- No new traffic calming measures within residential areas
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Remember when Cardiff had official Car Free days...
5 years now since the last one.
Meanwhile, Paris now has them every first Sunday of the month.
Still lots happening at
#CarFreeDiff
- join us in the city centre for
#SundayFunday
#CarFreeDiff
#letsride
free family fun ‘til 4!
#ChildFriendlyCDF
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14) The Wharf in Atlantic Wharf. Probably one of the newest buildings on my list having been built in 1990.
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Well…
Great job everyone.
Outstanding work.
A complete sh*t show from beginning to miserable end.
At last activity at Guildford Crescent, & 1st job seems to be demolishing the old buildings facades😲. They are considered to be in such a bad condition that they need to be cleared & new build will have a new 'replica' of the original building fronts 🤔. Anyway work underway 👍
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Imagine these around
#roath
(particularly the streets north of Albany Road). Reduces rat running, safer cycling, less pollution/noise, add green space, encourages walking instead of driving, creates a community space, minimal impact on parking etc. Would make a massive difference
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If I was given access to a time machine and told I could go back in time to prevent the destruction of ONE building in Cardiff (out of the MANY sadly lost), I think it may have to be the Merchants Exchange.
The Pierhead Building's older cousin would have made an amazing hotel.
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40 years late... but glad the 7th busiest train station in Wales is getting it's first lift!!
The existing, rusting, wobbly footbridge at Cathays will also get demolished (thank god)
Cathays Station being something like the 6th busiest in all of Wales - and it looks like this.
Nearly a million users pre-pandemic and you can't even cross between platforms with a wheelchair.
How???
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