A four-metre tall sculpture of a wooden radio has been approved for the Cardiff Bay Barrage after plans were submitted back in April. The new sculpture will celebrate Flat Holm Island, and will take the shape of a radio. A radio signal transmitted from Lavernock Point near Cardiff and Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel in 1897 was the first of its kind to be delivered across the sea and paved the way for a thriving radio industry that has endured for over a century.
The hardwood sculpture will sit on a concrete plinth around halfway along the Barrage. Its construction was approved by Cardiff Council on Wednesday, August 31, and it will be built just south of the existing Scott memorial, around halfway down the Barrage.
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