25-447: Porth Teigr (meaning: "Tiger Gate") is an area under development in the docks area of Cardiff Bay , in the south of Cardiff , Wales . Its development began in 2008. The multi-use area will host the BBC drama village , with plans to link this to a new digital centre. The work will cover a large brownfield area . The venture was formed in 2005 between urban regeneration firm igloo and
50-797: A dramatic fall in exports. By 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression which followed the General Strike in 1926, coal exports had fallen to below 5 million tonnes and dozens of locally owned ships were laid-up. Despite intense activity at the port during the Second World War (which led to the attentions of the German Luftwaffe during the Cardiff Blitz ), coal exports continued to decline, finally ceasing in 1964. In 1950, imports outstripped exports for
75-463: A new bridge linking the site to the remainder of the inner harbour were completed enabling access to the new BBC Roath Lock Studios. The studios were officially opened on 12 March 2012 and will be the home to several productions, including Doctor Who (until 2021), Casualty , Pobol y Cwm and Upstairs Downstairs . Casualty started filming on site in September 2011. Plans were approved for
100-574: A range of housing, including affordable units claimed to be amongst the first in the UK designed to give flexibility of spaces to enable adaptation for lifestyle changes. Two dry docks will be flooded to help give the site more than 1.6 miles of waterfront, much with views across Cardiff Bay. The centrepiece of the development is the new 170,000 sq foot drama production studio complex for the BBC at Roath Lock . Extensive infrastructure and public realm works including
125-410: A residential development of 120 owner-occupier homes. Outline planning consent had been granted for up to 1,100 homes. 51°27′42″N 3°09′29″W / 51.461561°N 3.157959°W / 51.461561; -3.157959 Cardiff Docks Cardiff Docks ( Welsh : Dociau Caerdydd ) is a port in southern Cardiff , Wales . At its peak, the port was one of the largest dock systems in
150-547: A sea connection to the Bristol Channel if economic volumes of product were to be extracted. In 1794, the Glamorganshire Canal was completed, linking the then small town of Cardiff with Merthyr, and in 1798 a basin was built, connecting the canal to the sea. By the 1830s, Cardiff became the pre-eminent iron-exporting port, shipping almost half of British overseas iron exports; between 1840 and 1870,
175-776: The Cardiff Barrage that impounds the Rivers Taff and the Ely to create a massive fresh-water lake across to Penarth Head . Only two docks, the Roath and the Queen Alexandra, remain in use, and just two shipping companies remain, albeit buoyant with their worldwide interests. Shipping movements varying from a couple of movements to 10 or 12 per tide, with trade in timber, oil, scrap and containers. South Wales coalfield Too Many Requests If you report this error to
200-501: The Taff Vale Railway was opened, following much the same route as the canal. With the construction of the new East Bute Dock from 1855, designed by James Walker of Messrs. Walker & Burges and built by Thomas Cubitt 's firm, its opening in 1859 resulted in coal supplanting iron as the industrial foundation of South Wales , with exports reaching 2 million tons as early as 1862. The Bute Docks Feeder supplied
225-652: The Welsh Government . The venture is responsible for developing 38 acres of land on the south side of Roath Basin in Cardiff Bay as an environmentally sustainable mixed use development including commercial, retail and residential space. The developer advertises Porth Teigr as one of the most significant waterfront developments in the UK and will transform the last major derelict site in the inner harbour area to create more than 1 million sq. ft. of commercial development space and over 1,000 new homes. The development
250-831: The East Bute Dock with water extracted from the River Taff at Blackweir in Maindy , and now supplies the Roath Dock. It is largely an open canal through central Cardiff, other than a culvert between the New Theatre and the Cardiff International Arena . Frustration at the lack of development at Cardiff led to rival docks being opened at Penarth in 1865 and Barry, Wales in 1889. These developments eventually spurred Cardiff into action, with
275-627: The capacity to accommodate 400 people. A 3000 sq metre building was constructed in Porth Teigr as the long-term home of the Doctor Who Experience when it relocated from London's Olympia to Cardiff in 2012. BBC Worldwide had announced in September 2010 that it intended to relocate the attraction in Cardiff during 2012, the city of its filming and production, following consolidation of its previous Doctor Who exhibitions, including
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#1732781179966300-461: The closure of the former Doctor Who Exhibition in Cardiff's Red Dragon Centre in March 2011. The Doctor Who Experience closed in September 2017 after its 5-year lease had expired. The developers intended Porth Teigr to be a mixed development, hoping to avoid creating an area that was desolate at certain times of day. In 2014 igloo employed local residential architect Chris Loyn , initially to work on
325-697: The docks. Its headquarters were a currently derelict building in Cardiff Bay railway station . The building was turned into a railway heritage centre in 1979 by the Butetown Historic Railway Society. By 1994 the Society had started to run steam locomotive hauled passenger services up and down 550 yards of track. However, as the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation had no interest in the railway,
350-480: The first time in the port's history. The 1970s saw a short-term import boom, and in the 1980s the port experienced a slight rise in traffic, while much of the former port area began to be regenerated into non-port uses. The port found a niche as an important local centre for general cargo operations. Cardiff now has three operational docks capable of handling ships of up to 35,000 tons deadweight : Queen Alexandra Dock, Roath Dock and Roath Basin. Although still owned by
375-411: The name "Tiger Bay" was used in popular literature and slang (especially that of sailors) to denote any dock or seaside neighbourhood which shared a similar notoriety for danger. The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was created in 1987 to counter the effects of economic depression in this run-down area. Today, the port of Cardiff and what is now known as Cardiff Bay has been totally transformed by
400-663: The new Digital Media Centre (DMC) at Porth Teigr in April 2011, with a design reflecting the dock area's history using brick and timber. It was due to commence on site in November 2011 and be ready for occupation towards the end of 2012. The 40,000 sq ft building was to provide opportunities for small, high growth businesses and freelancers. The Digital Media Centre aimed to support the Creative Industries sector in Wales with
425-563: The opening of the Roath Dock in 1887, and the Queen Alexandra Dock in 1907. By then, coal exports from the South Wales Coalfield via Cardiff totalled nearly 9 million tons per annum, much of it exported in the holds of locally owned tramp steamers . By 1913, this had risen to 10,700,000 tons, making Cardiff second only to Barry, Wales as the largest coal exporting dock in the world. Cardiff's first steamship
450-452: The port, Roath Basin is now only used as a hospitality berth , and is only accessible by vessels via Roath Dock. The port has transit sheds with nearly 40,000 m (430,000 sq ft) of indoor storage plus 22.9 ha (57 acres) of open storage. There are 7 quayside cranes plus a range of mobile cranes. Cardiff's specialised facilities include a distribution terminal and chill and cold storage for perishables. Tiger Bay
475-594: The port. After the First World War , there was a boom in shipping in Cardiff, with 122 shipping companies in existence in 1920. The boom proved short-lived, however; oil was growing in importance as a maritime fuel, and the terms of the Treaty of Versailles soon flooded Europe with cheap German reparation coal. The Taff Vale Railway was built to transport coal from the South Wales Valleys to
500-464: The society changed its name to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway and moved from the site in 1997 to Barry Island railway station . From 1910 onwards capacity issues meant that the more modern and less tidal Barry Docks took over as the largest volume export point of coal. Until the early 1920s, Cardiff docks continued to boom as a location for shipping companies, but the fall in demand for Welsh coal caused
525-461: The volume of coal exports increased from 44,350 to 2.219 million tonnes. Increasing agitation for proper dock facilities led Cardiff's foremost landowner, John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute , to promote the construction of the (West) Bute Dock. The dock design was by Admiral William Henry Smyth and the resident engineer was George Turnbull . Two years after the October 1839 dock opening,
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#1732781179966550-532: The world with a total quayage of almost 7 mi (11 km). Once the main port for the export of South Wales coal , the Port of Cardiff remains active in the import and export of containers, steel, forest products and dry and liquid bulks. Following the development of the coal found in the Cynon Valley , Rhondda Valley, and Merthyr areas of South Wales, the export of both coal and iron products required
575-466: Was a local nickname for the general Cardiff Docks area, the evocative phrase deriving from the area's rough-and-tumble reputation. Merchant seamen arrived in Cardiff from all over the world, only staying for as long as it took to discharge and reload their ships: consequently many murders and lesser crimes went unsolved and unpunished, the perpetrators having sailed for other ports. In Victorian times,
600-429: Was granted permission to go ahead in 2008, to become the centre point for creative industries in Wales. It was officially named Porth Teigr in November 2010, in homage to the famous Cardiff docklands area of Tiger Bay . It is anticipated that the redeveloped site will ultimately provide opportunities for some 4,000 jobs. The redevelopment was anticipated to include some 200,000 sq.ft of leisure and retail space as well as
625-573: Was the Llandaff of 1865, and by 1910, there were some 250 tramp steamers owned at Cardiff, by prominent firms such as William Cory & Son , Morel, Evan Thomas Radcliffe , Tatem and Reardon-Smith. Each day, the principals of these companies would meet to arrange cargoes of coal for their ships in the opulent Coal Exchange in Mount Stuart Square . This trade reached its pinnacle in 1913, when 10.7 million tons of coal were exported from
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