Vacant offices for a film production studios are set to be turned into luxury flats. The offices for Afanti Media were formerly located on the sought-after Cardiff Road in the Llandaff area of Cardiff, however, they have been vacant for some time.
The media company - formerly Avanti Media - has worked on the likes of Songs of Praise, 6 Music Festival, and the Eisteddfod yr Urdd, is now based at Tagomago Park on Dowlais Road. An application to turn Afanti's former premises into flats was approved earlier this year, and signs have since appeared on the building showing prospective images of the development.
The building, along with an outbuilding, is set to be transformed into one, two, and three-bedroom apartments, under the name Cwrt y Llan. Four apartments - two two-bedroom, one one-bedroom, and one four-bedroom - will be set across the ground floor and first floors, with three of the apartments having private gardens.
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A further three two-bedroom apartments will be situated in the outbuilding - the 'Coach House', - also with private gardens, while a further two apartments will be set across the first and second floor. Signs from estate agents Allen & Harris have appeared on fencing outside the vacant building, advertising the nine new homes.
There will be cycle parking spaces, according to the design and access statement, as well as "limited car parking spaces". The site plan shows areas for covered cycle parking, as well as existing parking spaces. A planning application was submitted to Cardiff Council in 2021, however, there were objection comments submitted by residents of Cardiff Road as well as the Llandaff Society, and the Llandaff Conservation Group.
In their objection comment, the Llandaff Conservation Society said that the development would "result in an unneighbourly and too dense population of this location in the Conservation Area", adding that the site is "too small" to sustain the number of homes planned.
The objection comment added that the outbuilding is "unsuitable" for the proposed conversion into two storey flats and that the current state of the building "indicates the very high exposure of the location to traffic and air pollution." The comment also expressed concern for parking issues and traffic surrounding the site, as well as the amount of amenity space.
The Llandaff Society also submitted an objection comment last year when the planning application was initially submitted, listing "overdevelopment of the site", increased traffic, and reduced air quality among their reasons for objecting, as well as issues parking. The objection also suggested that a maximum of six residential units should be allowed on the site to avoid "town cramming" and that the outbuilding should be redeveloped as a car port.
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