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on 10 September 2009. Redrow was to build 142 new homes on the site. The development was still to be known as Ninian Park. A planted square was proposed at the centre of the new housing development, in the area of Ninian Park football ground's centre spot. The first show home of the £24m development
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and instead individual contractor, Cowlin Construction. 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
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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
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The residual 20acres would be used for development of the new Glamorgan Record Office (at the cost of the council), a hotel (build by the football club, which they could lease off) and the community sports facility House of Sport (built at the cost of football club, run by the council). If the
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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.
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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,
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On completion of the new athletics stadium, Cardiff City gained the 125-year rent-free lease. On half of the land they developed the new Cardiff City stadium and retail park
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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 renamed
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on 20 October 2008, in their development control announcements. This site was to include a café, garden centre, a small shop, offices and meeting rooms.
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The estate welcomed its first residents in November 2010. The main road was named Bartley Wilson Way after the founder of Cardiff FC.
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football club failed to complete House of Sport development by December 2009, then the lease on the hotel would forfeit to the council
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gave a nominal 125year lease to Cardiff City on a 40acre block of land, on which the former Cardiff Athletics Stadium stood
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Cardiff City agreed to build a new athletics stadium on a further 20acre council owned plot north of the existing site
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team until the 2011–12 season. It is the second largest stadium in Cardiff and also Wales (the largest being the
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in Leckwith, started building at the end of 2007 and originated from the idea of a new stadium for
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was to open by late spring 2010, with a mixture of terraced, detached and semi-detached houses.
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to house archives from the historic county of Glamorgan and worldwide genealogical resources.
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The football club, once they had moved stadium, could sell the land of the former
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were named in an original planning application, but pulled out in March 2005.
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to be built on the current site of the allotments, located on Bessemer Road.
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A 470,000 sq ft (44,000 m) retail park with 18 retail units
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now rests on the site previously occupied by Cardiff's city farm.
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Buildings and structures under construction in the United Kingdom
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Completion of the development was planned for Spring 2010.
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The new athletics stadium, built to replace the previous
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stand. The track and field are now open for public use.
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arrangement of existing facilities across three sites:
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The main stand of Cardiff International Sports Stadium
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club. The stadium also hosted the home matches of the
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51°27′50″N 3°11′56″W / 51.464°N 3.199°W / 51.464; -3.199
Leckwith
Cardiff
Cardiff City F.C.
A new 26,828 seat stadium for Cardiff City F.C.
A 470,000 sq ft (44,000 m) retail park with 18 retail units
A New athletics stadium
Cardiff Athletics Stadium
Ninian Park
Glamorgan Archives

land-swap
Cardiff Council
Ninian Park
housing redevelopment
HMRC
Cardiff City FC
Costco
Asda
Aberdeen Asset Management
Matalan




Cardiff City Stadium

Cardiff City F.C.
Cardiff Blues
rugby union

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