Plans to build a huge new tower block in the centre of Cardiff look set to be given the go-ahead. Cardiff Council's planning committee will meet this week to discuss the development, which includes a 35-storey tower consisting mainly of apartments and a separate pavilion building.
The plans for a site in Wood Street have been amended since they were first announced in 2021, with the height of the tower block increasing by five storeys and the number of apartments proposed going from 330 to 364. Updated plans for the development, which went through a re-consultation process, reposition the building further north by half a metre.
If approved the proposed 113m-high building will be one of the tallest in Wales to have acquired planning permission. Plans were revealed in March 2021 for a 35-storey building on Bute Terrace. However, a planning application for this development is yet to be submitted and few details are available on it so far. Plans for a 42-storey building for land on Customhouse Street in the city were approved in 2016 but the development is yet to be completed. The tallest building in Wales is currently The Tower building in Swansea, which is 107ms high.
