It's said the mark of a thriving city is the number of cranes across its skyline - but in what was meant to be Cardiff's flagship new development, they haven't been seen for years. The face of the city is changing, with plans approved for a 113m-high skyscraper right in the city centre and a planned transformation of Cardiff Bay in the works.
Down the road, though, a huge plot of land sits mostly empty. Cardiff Pointe is at the tip of the International Sports Village and when approved in 2013 it was meant to be a transformative development of townhouses, detached houses and flats - including two tower blocks - totalling some 561 units to be put on the market.
It was described by designers Scott Brownrigg as "a catalyst for the regeneration of this highly prominent area... a world class waterfront." But go there today and huge chunks of the Cardiff Pointe site look more like a wasteland.
