25-478: The term Vulcan Hotel can refer to: The Vulcan, Cardiff The Vulcan Hotel (Saint Bathans) , located in Saint Bathans, New Zealand Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vulcan Hotel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
50-634: A lower-tier authority within South Glamorgan . Cardiff Council consists of 79 councillors, representing 28 electoral wards. Labour has held a majority of the seats on the council since 2012. The last election was in May 2022 and the next election is due in 2027. Municipal life in Cardiff dates back to the 12th century, when Cardiff was granted borough status by the Earls of Gloucester . The offices of
75-586: A three-year extension of the lease to Brains. In early 2012, Brains confirmed that they would be terminating their lease when it expired in March 2012, stating that the business was commercially unviable. With the building again threatened with demolition, but still with a growing local media campaign to save the building, Marcol Asset Management agreed to donate the building to the St Fagans National Museum of History . Brains subsequently closed
100-530: Is sold in the pub and bottled for sale in the museum shop. Cardiff Council Cardiff Council , formally the County Council of the City and County of Cardiff ( Welsh : Cyngor Sir Dinas a Sir Caerdydd ) is the governing body for Cardiff , one of the principal areas of Wales . The principal area and its council were established in 1996 to replace the previous Cardiff City Council which had been
125-530: The 2017 and 2022 elections. Party with the most elected councillors in bold. Coalition agreements in notes column. The council's main offices are at County Hall on Atlantic Wharf. It was built in 1987 as the headquarters of the former South Glamorgan County Council . The council also uses the City Hall on Cathays Park in the city centre, built in 1906 for the former Cardiff City Council . Full council meetings were held at County Hall prior to 2020, when
150-559: The COVID-19 pandemic required meetings to be held virtually. From the resumption of in-person meetings in May 2022, full council meetings were held at City Hall. City Hall closed for refurbishment in 2023 but is planned to be brought back into use as the council's meeting place once the work is complete, although this may not be until 2026. Since the 2022 elections, the unitary authority area has been divided into 28 electoral wards . Many of these wards are coterminous with communities of
175-584: The Local Government Act 1972 . Cardiff became a lower-tier district council, called Cardiff City Council , within the new county of South Glamorgan . The South Glamorgan County Council provided county-level services in the area. Further local government restructuring in 1996 under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 saw the city of Cardiff become a unitary authority : the present Cardiff Council. South Glamorgan County Council
200-423: The "County Council of the City and County of Cardiff". For most purposes the council styles itself "Cardiff Council", except where the full legal name is required, when it uses the form from its constitution. The first election to the reconstituted council was held in 1995, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until it came into its powers on 1 April 1996. Political control of
225-563: The Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, gave the pub a substantial potential new customer base. The Vulcan was voted Cardiff Pub of the Year by the local branch of CAMRA in both 1997 and 2009. In 2009 Brains Brewery confirmed that they were to terminate their lease on the property. Site owner and freeholder, businessman Derek Rapport via his company Marcol Asset Management, had plans accepted at Cardiff Council for
250-521: The Council. The Conservatives replaced Labour as the official opposition. Labour suffered badly, losing 14 councillors. Plaid Cymru gained four councillors. Three independent councillors were elected; two former Conservatives who had left the group in 2006 being joined by an additional member. In 2012 , the Labour Party took overall control of the council, and remained in overall control following
275-555: The age of 31, Huw Thomas became Wales' youngest council leader when he was elected in May 2017. Following the 2022 election and subsequent changes of allegiance up to July 2024, the composition of the council was: Common Ground is an alliance of Plaid Cymru and the Greens , with its candidates standing for both parties as "Plaid Cymru, Green Party, Common Ground". The next election is due in 2027. Since 2012, Cardiff Council elections have taken place every five years. The council
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#1732798811953300-460: The campaign and visited the premises. The Cardiff band Future of the Left recorded the video for their single The Hope That House Built on the premises. But Cadw declined to make the pub a listed building , due to the fact that it had been substantially rebuilt in the 1900s and that there were better surviving examples elsewhere. However, as a result of public pressure, the freeholders agreed to
325-459: The council since 1996 has been held by the following parties: The role of Lord Mayor of Cardiff is largely ceremonial. Political leadership is provided instead by the leader of the council , although the two roles were temporarily combined between 1999 and 2003. The first leader following the 1996 reforms was Russell Goodway , who had been the last leader of South Glamorgan County Council . The leaders of Cardiff Council since 1996 have been: At
350-522: The demolition of the building and subsequent mixed-use redevelopment of the surrounding site, based around a multi-storey car park. A local campaign began to protect what by then was one of Cardiff's oldest surviving original public houses. A petition was raised that gathered over 5,000 signatures, politicians lobbied, and celebrities including James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers and actor Rhys Ifans actively supported
375-534: The development of the Adamsdown area of Cardiff, with an original address on Whitmore Lane, Newtown . The name Vulcan, the ancient Roman God of Fire , which it kept throughout its existence, referred to the nearby ironworks. Close to the bustling railway station of Queen Street and within walking distance of Cardiff Gaol , the pub was south of the Newport Road in the suburb's working-class area. It
400-408: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vulcan_Hotel&oldid=933240172 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Vulcan, Cardiff The Vulcan Hotel is a historic hotel and public house , that
425-517: The mayor, aldermen, and common councillors developed during the Middle Ages. When elected county councils were established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 , Cardiff was considered large enough to run its own services and so it became a county borough , independent from Glamorgan County Council . The town of Cardiff was still considered the county town of Glamorgan, with Glamorgan County Council building its headquarters there. Cardiff
450-404: The museum’s sites at St Fagans and Nantgarw, awaiting planning permission for the buildings reconstruction. Originally planned to reopen in 2019, this was delayed. The pub has been restored to its appearance after refurbishment and redecoration in 1915 and re-opened on 11 May 2024, along with the launch of a Glamorgan Brewery collaboration Vulcan Ale, Pale Ale and alcohol-free variety, that
475-549: The pub as scheduled in May 2012, while the museum started an appeal for photographs, objects and stories relating to the Vulcan and its history. In July 2012, building contractors and preservationists were deployed by the National History Museum to start deconstruction of the building by hand, to allow brick by brick movement to St Fagans. By July 2013, the de-constructed parts of the building were held between
500-601: The rest of the interior was updated in the 1950s. Local writer John Williams commented in 2011: The place is a total time warp. Inside it's forever 1975. The Brains beer is cheap, the toilets are outside in the rain, and the bikers come down to drink every Saturday lunchtime. It's full of Cardiff history. The opening, directly opposite the pub, in November 2007, of the Atrium campus of the University of Glamorgan , home to
525-564: Was abolished. Ahead of the reforms the county council had campaigned for a new "Greater Cardiff" authority to reflect the boundaries of South Glamorgan, but the Conservative government of the time decided to keep the Vale of Glamorgan (which covered a marginal Conservative parliamentary seat) separate from Cardiff. The 1994 Act directed that the new council should be called "Cardiff County Council". The council's constitution calls it instead
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#1732798811953550-620: Was frequently busy over lunch times and in the early evening, patronised by working-class people, often of Irish descent. The building was substantially rebuilt in about 1900, and internally refurbished in 1914 by local architect F. J. Veall, at which time the building was decorated throughout with green and brown ceramic tiles . With a functional and easy-to-clean internal style, while adjoining Victorian buildings were demolished and redeveloped, twice on one side, it remained untouched, both outside and in, except for an occasional coat of paint. The pub retained its brown ceramic urinals , although
575-502: Was located in Adamsdown suburb of Cardiff , South Wales . Scheduled for demolition in 2009, after a long public campaign to preserve what had become one of Cardiff's oldest working public houses, in 2012 it was donated to the National History Museum at St Fagans . A decade-long reconstruction saw the pub reopen on 11 May 2024. The Vulcan Hotel was built in 1853, in the early stages of the expansion of Cardiff and
600-471: Was one of only two county boroughs in Wales created in 1889, the other being Swansea . ( Newport was later elevated to county borough status in 1891, followed by Merthyr Tydfil in 1908.) In 1905, Cardiff became a city, and thereafter Cardiff County Borough Council was allowed to call itself Cardiff City Council. In 1974 local government across Wales and England was restructured into a two-tier system under
625-404: Was run by a Labour majority administration between 1995 and 2004. The Liberal Democrats ran a minority administration from 2004, in coalition with Plaid Cymru. Following the 2008 local elections in Cardiff there was still no party with an overall majority. The Lib Dems increased their total number of councillors to 35, forming an administration with Plaid Cymru, with Rodney Berman as leader of
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