Housing Development in Cardiff

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:41 pm on 21 June 2022.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 1:41, 21 June 2022

I just wanted to focus on the planning infrastructure around housing developments. I was very disappointed to learn that Cardiff Council has given planning approval for 700 homes on the old Brains site, just south of Cardiff Central station—a 29-storey development—and the only contribution to social housing is £600,000 for homes to be built elsewhere. Well, that equates to about five homes. So, I just wondered what plans the Welsh Government might have to strengthen the obligation to house not just the people who can afford to buy houses, but those who are waiting on the housing waiting list.