{"id":15212,"date":"2017-03-24T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2017-03-24T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T18:46:07","slug":"green-light-for-2-billion-garden-city-development-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15212","title":{"rendered":"Green light for \u00a32 billion garden city development in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Wales-online_gardencity-e1490378512946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15213\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Wales-online_gardencity-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Wales online website\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>The City of Cardiff Council has approved plans for the remaining elements of Plasd?r, the \u00a32 billion garden city development earmarked for the north-west outskirts of the capital.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Planning Portal writes:<\/p>\n<p>The main application, passed by the city\u2019s planning committee, includes an illustrative master plan for the entire 368-hectare site that borders Radyr, Danescourt, Fairwater, Pentrebane and St. Fagans.<\/p>\n<p>The developers are promising to create a \u201cworld-class, sustainable community\u201d. Ultimately the scheme could deliver well over 6,000 new homes.<\/p>\n<p>The development will contribute a total of \u00a355.7 million in community benefits including four primary schools, a secondary school, health centres, shops, offices, pubs and restaurants, leisure centres, playing fields and parks and preserved woodland.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals include planned hierarchy of roads, paths and cycleways to maximise walking and cycling and the use of public transport.<\/p>\n<p>Plasdwr is expected to create over 30,000 jobs during its lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planningportal.co.uk\/news\/article\/495\/planning_news_-_23_march_2017?utm_source=PPQ+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=dce84177d4-Newsletter_2303017_TEXT&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_734e0b63a9-dce84177d4-7216461#five\" target=\"_blank\">Planning Portal<\/a>\u00a0and read about the background at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/what-cardiffs-new-7000-home-11740793\" target=\"_blank\">Wales online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Cardiff Council has approved plans for the remaining elements of Plasd?r, the \u00a32 billion garden city development earmarked for the north-west outskirts of the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15214,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}