Bute Park Development - Plan Pictures

Here are plans and artistic drawings from the Proposed Bute Park Development Plan 07/2649C - Amended). I obtained these from the city council 16 September 2008. Sorry some of the images are a bit blurry




A few interesting features I noted....

It looks like there are now going to be traffic lights in the Park? How much traffic is expected to be going through here?
CCTV cameras in the park
Tree destruction
Destruction of the historic feeder

There will be parts where there is room for two lorries to go side by side.

To be honest I was a bit surprised by the scale of the development proposed when I saw the plans!!


Some other things that are interesting to note:

In the original March application a SWOT analysis (Cost-Benefit) was performed. This outlined a number of negative aspects of the proposed scheme, including but not limited too

a) Threat to the tranquil nature of this part of the park
b) Parkland trees may be affected by increased traffic
c) Removal of trees
d) Change to character of the park
e) Visual intrusion of traffic
f) Interruption of historic feeder path

For reasons that are unclear this analysis was not included in the new proposal, although the new proposal does notthing to remedy these problems. The only real difference in the new proposal is that it changes some of the geometries of the bridge width and turning circles. This analysis will only be seen if you look in the orginal submission!

The current application attempts to emphasise that the primary reason this work needs to be done is public safety from traffic. This is pure fiction. In the original submission safety is not even mentioned, the real reasons which can only be found when looking at the original application is to facilitate large events in the park, and make event management easier. Not only is it fiction but it is machiavallian deception in trying to pull the safety card on the public to try to justify the development!

There are also procedural issues here. It is sad in this modern age that members of the Cardiff public are forced to go down to the City Hall with digital camera in hand to get snap shots of the plans to put up a blogging site so other council tax paying members of the Cardiff public can look at them in their leisure and outside of work time. My repeated requests in person and in email to get electronic versions where denied.

Finally a request has been made under the Freedom of Information Act to get a breakdwn of how much this application has cost the Cardiff public so far (despite the objections to it), where this money has gone and which Councillors have supported the application. My request has been acknowledged and I await eagerly a response from the council.... ..

There is a petition here

and another blog here