A national charity stepped up its calls for Cardiff Council's headquarters to be protected after plans over its future made further progress recently. The council told cabinet members at a meeting last month that its preferred way forward for County Hall, located next to Atlantic Wharf in Butetown, is to replace it with a smaller building.
Twentieth Century Society (C20), which campaigns for the protection of Britain's modern architecture, has urged the council to explore options for a retrofit scheme. Cardiff Council said the building is simply too big for what it needs right now and that it would cost tens of millions of pounds to bring it up to the required standards.
A spokesperson for C20 said: "Cardiff Council declared a climate emergency in March 2019 and their Environmental Policy commits to being carbon neutral by 2030. The enormous carbon-cost of largescale demolition is simply not compatible with these commitments."
