Home to the Senedd and Wales’s Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay is already an exciting hub of food, politics and culture within the Welsh capital. But city planners are currently in talks to make it even better.
Cardiff Peninsula is the new name that’s been given to the stretch of land between the International Sports Village and Cardiff Bay Yacht Club. After months of design by Cardiff Peninsula Consortium, proposals for what the area could eventually look like have officially been released.
Plans include up to 1,200 apartments and a new office and retail space, as well as serviced apartments and a hotel. There are also plans for a new water taxi stop and extensive parking space, plus more exciting stuff like a shipping container-style food court, padel courts, crazy golf and screens for live sporting events.
As well as all that, developers want to ‘maximise biodiversity benefits’ of the space and have sought advice from the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
The project is still in the very, very early stages and there’s going to be a bunch of consultations throughout 2024, starting this week. Additional planning applications are due to be submitted in early 2025.
A spokesperson for the peninsula said: ‘Cardiff Peninsula is a truly unique place. How many other European capital cities have such a significant and important underdeveloped site surrounded by water?
‘We have assembled an incredibly talented and award winning design team which has been working extremely hard to deliver what is in effect a new district of the city centre.
‘Although our designs are at an early stage, we really want local people and businesses to engage and give us their views. This must be a site that delivers a vibrant 21st century addition to Cardiff city centre.’
Here’s a sneak peak at an artist’s impression of the scheme.
Time Out in Cardiff
While we await updates on Cardiff Peninsula, there’s loads of great stuff to check out in the city in the meantime. Time Out’s Cardiff-based contributors have the lowdown on all of its best things to do, its most delicious restaurants, most impressive museums and cosiest Airbnbs.
Did you see that these 12 UK pubs are officially ‘perfect’, according to National Geographic.
Plus: this northern restaurant has been named the best in the UK for 2024.
Stay in the loop: sign up to our free Time Out UK newsletter for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.