{"id":18022,"date":"2017-12-08T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=18022"},"modified":"2018-02-16T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:29:07","slug":"councillor-fights-to-save-historic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/councillor-fights-to-save-historic-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor fights to save historic park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Councillor Owen Jones says he will fight plans to build a ten storey block of student accommodation on Howard Gardens&#8217; Bowling Green.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Councillor for Adamsdown said selling one of the last green areas in the ward would be a mistake. He argues the planned flats don&#8217;t bring much long term benefit to the area.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council are set to sell the public green space for six million pounds, making it one of the most lucrative property deals of any council in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Crosslanes, the company behind the development, say the building will free up private housing for families and young professionals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 600px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-18022-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gardens.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gardens.mp4\">http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gardens.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The park at Howard Gardens has been a public space since 1890 when Lord Bute donated the land to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The Bowling Green was built on part of the site in 1914 and was open for nearly 100 years until the council closed it to save money in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Now the plan is to use that part of the park for the new development.<\/p>\n<p>A separate development of 200 student flats was built next to the park in 2015 and building materials were stored in the Bowling Green. It has never been refurbished.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18053 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/gardens-700x394.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Councillor Jones says the space could easily be refurbished: &#8220;Not only are we losing this open space, we&#8217;re losing it to yet more student accommodation. We&#8217;ve got lots of money from all the student accommodation built already.\u00a0That&#8217;s why we have the money to refurbish parks like this. What&#8217;s the point in having the money but no green spaces to spend it on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now he plans to challenge the planning application using Welsh laws that protect future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council won&#8217;t comment on ongoing planning applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Councillor Owen Jones says he will fight plans to build a ten storey block of student accommodation on Howard Gardens&#8217; Bowling Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[26,789,1434,403,1435,1436,1437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18022"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18129,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18022\/revisions\/18129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}