Cardiff Bay/Mermaid Quay developments

Surely that would be impossible now with that new expensive bridge that carries the Bay Car buses. It doesn't swing, so that's surely that now.

Good point, I'd forgotten that! Something does need to be done about Roath Basin though. I like the houseboats idea - but are house prices in cardiff high enough to make houseboats an attractive alternative?

Surely that would be impossible now with that new expensive bridge that carries the Bay Car buses. It doesn't swing, so that's surely that now.

Good point, I'd forgotten that! Something does need to be done about Roath Basin though. I like the houseboats idea - but are house prices in cardiff high enough to make houseboats an attractive alternative?

Well the BBC Casualty has a couple of their "Doctors" living on a houseboat in Holby aka Penarth Marina

Bringing the discussion of Mermaid Quay developments to this thread from the more general retail one - I'm not surprised a Greggs has followed the success of Nata and Magic Wrap, both of which have queues at lunchtime, but as with Costa and Starbucks I really hope that it doesn't damage the viability of the independents. Nata in particular is as cheap as Greggs but with much more interesting (and sometimes even healthy) options. There's also another new coffee shop opened next to Magic Wrap, Quantum, that grinds its own beans but I will be more surprised if that makes it as we are saturated with coffee options now and their cakes are not comparable to the others. Nice to have Turkish coffee in the Bay though, other than the dreadful Bosphorus.

Punk Panda has also hit the dust and been replaced with the cheaper Quayside Cafe which has a rather generic but good value menu - though I don't know what the quality is like. Anyone eaten in there yet? And Irie Shack is about to open on James Street with rum cocktails and jerk chicken. So plenty of movement in the Bay and some of it even independents, hurrah.

Bringing the discussion of Mermaid Quay developments to this thread from the more general retail one - I'm not surprised a Greggs has followed the success of Nata and Magic Wrap, both of which have queues at lunchtime, but as with Costa and Starbucks I really hope that it doesn't damage the viability of the independents. Nata in particular is as cheap as Greggs but with much more interesting (and sometimes even healthy) options. There's also another new coffee shop opened next to Magic Wrap, Quantum, that grinds its own beans but I will be more surprised if that makes it as we are saturated with coffee options now and their cakes are not comparable to the others. Nice to have Turkish coffee in the Bay though, other than the dreadful Bosphorus.

Punk Panda has also hit the dust and been replaced with the cheaper Quayside Cafe which has a rather generic but good value menu - though I don't know what the quality is like. Anyone eaten in there yet? And Irie Shack is about to open on James Street with rum cocktails and jerk chicken. So plenty of movement in the Bay and some of it even independents, hurrah.

There's another coffee shop coming to James Street - near the West Bute Street turning. The builders are in at the moment. We must have reached peak coffee by now!

With this many coffee shops, is Cardiff Bay the new Seattle?

Joking apart, it seems that the restaurant options in the Bay have moved from independents to chains but the coffee shop independents are still popping up, as well as moving northwards (Geraldine's and Sunflower both around Mount Stuart Square, and Quantum and this new one on James Street). I wonder if that's because the outlay to start a coffee shop is less onerous than that for a full restaurant?

New 20 storey apartment tower planned for Cardiff bay with penthouses with a one million price tag

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/c ... r-11914293

The planning committee is never going to let someone build a twenty storey block of flats right next to the Norwegian Church. Pie in the sky.

Personally, I'd like it if we kept all high-rise builds over at the ISV. It's interesting that this is a proposal from ABP though (the owners of the port). I didn't know they owned this land.

Ych a fi.

I hate the tokenistic use of Welsh for these new developments: There was 'Porthcwlis' for Portcullis near Penarth and now this is going to be called 'Dolffin Quay'

Dolphin is indeed 'dolffin' but why keep Quay in English? Either call it Cei Dolffin or Dolphin Quay. Grim.

Just got this in the post from ABP: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53624066/abp.jpg