Student Accommodation

That looks okay doesn't it.

It'll be interesting to see if there is a shift out of traditional terrace housing to these sorts of places and see what happens to Cathays. There's certainly a good few hundred (if not over 1,000) more student units planned across the various schemes in the city so something is happening, either more students or they are moving.

Not student accommodation but staff accommodation this time.

The old Council building in Heath Park which has been mothballed for quite some time has been given a long term lease to Cardiff University.
The large single storey unit has been completely refitted and is now 'College House' for the 'College of Biomedical & Life Sciences', one of the three Colleges in the new structure of the University.

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Caradog House in St Andrews Place is to be converted to student accommodation -

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local ... re-9053599

Caradog House in St Andrews Place is to be converted to student accommodation -

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local ... re-9053599

It looks okay as well.

I've still got a concern about the sheer volume of new student homes schemes, but time will tell how many actually get built and how successful they are. As we've discussed on here before it'll be interesting to watch how all these schemes affect the traditional student dominated suburbs in the city and if they return to normal residential use, it would certainly help the apparent shortage in housing stock. What I do like is seeing older surplus to requirements office stock being converted into something else, it might actually help the office development market a little in the long term as well.

Well the Employment Tribunal and (I think) an offshoot of the Dept of Transport will have to find new digs.

The Park Place/St Andrews Crescent/Windsor Place area was the traditional heart of the Cardiff office market with solicitors, accountants, surveyors etc. This seems to be changing quite radically. I wouldn't be surprised to see more premises being converted to A3 and residential in the next few years. I think it reflects the chaning professional services market - a lot of solicitors/accountants/surveyors are looking to merge to be able to compete. Plus office requirements are completely different. A grand Victorian house may look impressive from the outside but is completely inadequate as office accommodation. The choice is to either gut the interior and remodel (hideously expensive) or move.

Tower crane being erected in Windsor Place today

There is an application in to convert the Cardiff and Vale College building on the corner of the Parade and City Road into student accommodation. No great surprise to be honest and probably the best use of that building. I do hope they refurbish the exterior - it looks out of place in that location anyway but on the basis that it's not going to be demolished it would be preferable if it looked a little less 'concrete'.

There is an application in to convert the Cardiff and Vale College building on the corner of the Parade and City Road into student accommodation. No great surprise to be honest and probably the best use of that building. I do hope they refurbish the exterior - it looks out of place in that location anyway but on the basis that it's not going to be demolished it would be preferable if it looked a little less 'concrete'.

sorry but your are wrong about that building being converted into student acccom, because i have seen the app and its the site right next door that will be student accom, where the social club was. they plan to demolish it and build a building a similar height to the college building.

This is a new application for (I think) w/c 27th April. It's definately for the CAVC building. The one you are referring to was an application from about a monbth ago and I think was discussed in the General Developments thread at the time.

Heres my post in the General Developments thread regarding the other application for student resi in City Road -

There is an application for a 9 storey residential block on the site of the Municipal Club in City Road. It's next door to the existing tower block currently used by Cardiff and Vale College which I think is 11 storeys. With the CAVC facility opening in Dumballs Rd later this year I was willing to bet money that the exiting tower block in City Rd would have been sold for a residential/student conversion anyway.

I'm not sure I like the idea of City Rd building upwards. It's got a fairly uniform scalke at the moment and although there are some buildings that are in need of renovation and a few old car lots that could do with redeveloping it's coming along quite nicely. I think the existing tower is very incongruous particularly as it abuts the Tredegarville area which I think is a conservation area.