Demolition of a former tax office could begin within weeks as the final stages of planning are now underway.
The former HMRC tax offices in Llanishen are set to be demolished following Cardiff Council’s approval of demolition plans in August 2022. Work began at the site on Ty Glas Road began last week ahead of the demolition start date. Although an exact date is to be confirmed, the council’s planning department are reviewing documents in the final stage of the process.
When the council give the go-ahead, the demolition of several buildings on the site — including the two tower blocks — will begin and take around one year to complete.
The blocks have been lying empty since the department relocated to the city centre in 2020. The tax offices are now in Central Square, leaving the 16-storey HMRC building and 11-storey Gleider House unused.
Original plans for the site made by developers included building hundreds of homes, a care home, retirement flats and business units. However, these plans were scrapped when the council acquired the brownfield site in September 2021 to look at building a new mainstream secondary school and an additional learning needs secondary school.
The schools were considered to keep up with the rising demand for school places due to hundreds of new homes being built in the city. The decision to award the demolition contract was made public in January. It was given with the intention for the demolition to bring forward “strategic education proposals under the Sustainable Communities for Learning Programme”, according to a Cardiff Council spokesperson.
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