The Regeneration of Cardiff Bay

• By 1907

1950s Economic Boom

1970s Major Economic Decline

Inner city policies• In the 1980s, the Government began to push policies for inner city

regeneration.

• Inner city programmes have 6 main aims:

1. To enhance job prospects.

2. To bring land and buildings back to use.

3. Improve housing conditions.

4. Encourage private sector investment.

5. Improve the social fabric.

6. Improve environmental quality.

Urban Development Corporations

One of the major schemes to be set up was the Urban Development Corporations.

These were given powers to:

• Acquire and reclaim land for REGENERATION• Promote new industrial and housing development• Support community facilities.

• The global demand for coal decreased and the industry started had declined after WWII.

• This decline left large areas, designed in the C19th, with no major use. This was the whole Bay area

• Unemployment became a problem and those who could afford to left the area. Ethnic minorities migrated inwards.

• Tiger Bay and Butetown became places of multiple deprivation. Crime rates increased and there was physical deterioration of the urban fabric.

• It was against this background that plans to transform Cardiff Docks into Cardiff Bay were drawn up.

WHY DID CARDIFF NEED AN URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?

WHEN WAS THE CBDC ESTABLISHED?

• The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was established in April 1987 to regenerate the 1,100 hectares of derelict docklands of Cardiff and Penarth. 

CBDC MISSION STATEMENT

To put Cardiff on the International Map as a superlative maritime city which will stand

comparison with any such city in the world, thereby enhancing the image and

economic well-being of Cardiff and Wales as a whole

• To re-unite the city centre of Cardiff with its waterfront.• To promote development and provide a superb

environment in which people will want to live, work and play.

• To bring forward a mix of development which would create a wide range of job opportunities and would reflect the hopes and aspirations of the communities of the area.

• To achieve the highest standard of design and quality in all types of development and investment.

• To establish the area as a recognised centre of excellence and innovation in the field of urban regeneration.

WHAT WERE THE AIMS OF THE CBDC?

Millennium Stadium

Lloyd George Avenue

CBD

Atlantic Wharf

Welsh Millennium

Centre

Senydd

Roath Basin

Visitor Centre

Norwegian Church

Mermaid Quay

Techniquest

St Davids Hotel

Flats

River Ely

Cardiff Bay Retail Park

River Taff St Davids Hotel

Cardiff Bay

The Barrage

Penarth Marina

Sports Village

Positive Impacts Negative Impacts

Social Impacts

Economic Impacts

Environmental Impacts

IMPACTS OF THE CBDC ON CARDIFF BAY

Really good – student video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqRsR-JNXng

• Cbdc causes and impacts of regeneration

POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACTS

• Preservations of crafts

• Provision of community facilities

NEGATIVE SOCIAL IMPACTS

• Conflicts with the host community

• Crime

• Loss of cultural identity

• Social problems

POSITIVE ECONOMIC IMPACTS

• Increased Income

• Increased Employment

• Improved Infrastructure

• Multiplier Effect

NEGATIVE ECONOMIC IMPACTS

• Increased living costs

• Decline of traditional employment opportunities

• Seasonality of employment

• Increased taxes

• Leakages

POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

• Improved assets

• Landscaping

• Conservation

• Regeneration

• Building regulations

NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

• Traffic congestion

• Pollution of air, water; litter and noise

• Destruction of natural wildlife systems and breeding patterns

How can we evaluate the success of the Cardiff Bay Development

Corporation?

‘Was it just too early to pull the plug on CBDC?’- What problems were predicted following the

ending of CBDC?

‘Bay’s voyage into unchartered waters’

- What did CBDC claim as success and failures?