Leckwith development

The Leckwith development is in the Leckwith area of southwest Cardiff, Wales. Work started in Autumn 2007 with the construction of a new stadium for Cardiff City F.C.

The Leckwith development is in the Leckwith area of southwest Cardiff, Wales. Work started in Autumn 2007 with the construction of a new stadium for Cardiff City F.C. ==The proposal== The project consisted of: A new 26,828-seat stadium for Cardiff City F.C. A retail park with 18 retail units A New athletics stadium to replace the recently demolished Cardiff Athletics Stadium A new housing estate on the site of the current Ninian Park Stadium A 70-room hotel with bar and restaurant A new Glamorgan Archives to house archives from the historic county of Glamorgan and worldwide genealogical resources. Completion of the development was planned for Spring 2010. ===Three way land-swap=== To complete the deal, it involved a simple land-swap arrangement of existing facilities across three sites: Cardiff Council gave a nominal 125year lease to Cardiff City on a 40acre block of land, on which the former Cardiff Athletics Stadium stood Cardiff City agreed to build a new athletics stadium on a further 20acre council owned plot north of the existing site 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 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 football club failed to complete House of Sport development by December 2009, then the lease on the hotel would forfeit to the council The football club, once they had moved stadium, could sell the land of the former Ninian Park stadium for housing redevelopment 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 order due to an outstanding £2.7M bill to HMRC, the club asked the council for permission to sell the residual 20acres to a developer. ==Ninian Park housing estate== The stadium was handed over to Redrow Homes by Cardiff City chairman Peter Ridsdale 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 was to open by late spring 2010, with a mixture of terraced, detached and semi-detached houses. 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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