51°27′50″N3°11′56″W / 51.464°N 3.199°W /51.464; -3.199TheLeckwith development is in theLeckwith area of southwestCardiff, Wales. Work started in Autumn 2007 with the construction of a new stadium forCardiff City F.C.
The project consisted of:
Completion of the development was planned for Spring 2010.
To complete the deal, it involved a simpleland-swap arrangement of existing facilities across three sites:[citation needed]
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen issues in construction across the two council owned sites, the football club incurred additional costs. This initially resulted in an agreement to lapse the development of the House of Sport until December 2010. In January 2009, with Cardiff City facing a winding-up order due to an outstanding £2.7M bill toHMRC, the club asked the council for permission to sell the residual 20acres to a developer.[2]
TheCapital Shopping Park in Leckwith, started building at the end of 2007 and originated from the idea of a new stadium forCardiff City FC. The retail development was completed in 2009 and has a total of 21 tenants includingCostco,Asda, ScS, Next, Hobbycraft, Smyths Toys and Costa. It has 13,935-square-metre (150,000 sq ft) of retail space. It was originally owned by Capital Retail Park Partnership, which is owned by commercial developer PMG, but in February 2014 it was sold toAberdeen Asset Management for £59.65 million.
Matalan were named in an original planning application, but pulled out in March 2005.[3]
The new stadium has 33,280 seats[1] and is home toCardiff City F.C. club. The stadium also hosted the home matches of theCardiff Bluesrugby union team until the 2011–12 season. It is the second largest stadium in Cardiff and also Wales (the largest being theMillennium Stadium). The stadium cost £29,000,000,Laing O'Rourke was contracted for the whole development.
The new athletics stadium, built to replace the previousCardiff Athletics Stadium which was demolished to make room for thenew rugby and football stadium. Construction started in March 2007. The athletics stadium is the only part of the development to not be built by the main contractor,Laing O'Rourke and instead individual contractor, Cowlin Construction.[4] The stadium will include a gym, meeting rooms, and several offices, which should be completed in the new year. Members of the public are now permitted to come and watch the events that are taking place on the track or field in the now completed stand. The track and field are now open for public use.
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The Glamorgan Record Office moved to a site behind the new football stadium from the Glamorgan Building in Cathays Park at the end of 2009. The newly renamedGlamorgan Archives offers facilities for visitors to search its 8.5 km of archives relating to the historic county of Glamorgan, as well as conference space for workshops, lectures and school groups, and a modern paper conservation studio.
Theretail park now rests on the site previously occupied by Cardiff's city farm.Cardiff Council originally planned for theretail park to be built on the current site of the allotments, located on Bessemer Road.
Some of the unused plots at the entrance to the allotments were planned to become the site for a new community centre for disabled children and people with learning disabilities, run by Cardiff-based charity,Vision 21. This development was accepted byCardiff Council on 20 October 2008, in their development control announcements.[5] This site was to include a café, garden centre, a small shop, offices and meeting rooms.
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The stadium was handed over toRedrow Homes by Cardiff City chairmanPeter Ridsdale on 10 September 2009. Redrow was to build 142 new homes on the site. The development was still to be known as Ninian Park.[6] A planted square was proposed at the centre of the new housing development, in the area of Ninian Park football ground's centre spot.[6] The first show home of the £24m development was to open by late spring 2010, with a mixture of terraced, detached and semi-detached houses.[6]
The estate welcomed its first residents in November 2010. The main road was named Bartley Wilson Way after the founder of Cardiff FC.[7]
