CCS and LDP

Here you’ll find all the recent developments for the Cardiff Local Development Plan:

The ten-year plan for Cardiff

Cardiff Council’s ten-year plan for the city – the Replacement Local Development Plan (RLDP) - will shape the city we love irrevocably. We are also at the tipping point for ...
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Are We Going to Get the South East Wales Metro at Last?

Circumstances are at last looking good! The publication of a plan for the South East Wales Metro in the form of a White Paper by Cardiff Council earlier this month ...
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Transport Futures Conference, 6 June 2019 – “Changing How We Move Around A Growing City”

Cardiff Civic Society's Vice-Chair David Eggleton was invited to present a paper "Changing How We Move Around A Growing City" at the Transport Futures Conference on the 6 June. This ...
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Cardiff Civic Society – Position on the City Deal for Cardiff Capital Region (CCR)

When the Cardiff Civic Society began to get interested in the Local Development Plan (LDP) in 2008 we were particularly inspired by a speech by Sue Essex that Cardiff should ...
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Why Utretcht has much to teach Cardiff

More or less the same size as Cardiff, the Dutch regional capital Utrecht knows a thing or two that Cardiff might have learnt before it gave consent for the BBC ...
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Updated: CCS asks Minister to Call-in Central Square planning application

Today's SW Echo gives substantial media coverage to the CCS following its letter to the Minister for Planning and Regeneration, Carl Sergeant  asking him to call in a planning application ...
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Wales Government Minister Urged to Act over Metro & City Region

Cardiff Civic Society has today (25 March 2015) written to Edwina Hart, minister for Economy, Science and Transport urging her to approve the south east Wales metro project. David Eggleton, on ...
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LDP Hearings, CCS Briefing notes and letter to Cardiff Councillors

Following the conclusion of the Inspectors' Hearings into Cardiff Council's Deposited Local Development Plan, CCS wrote to all council members - and others - setting out the Society's concerns. Attached ...
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CCS Objection to Strategic Site D in the LDP north of Junction 33 on the M4 “Gwernybwlau”

Site D is one of the "Strategic Sites" in the Local Development Plan (see) and an application has already been received to develop it. The Civic Society has objected on ...
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