Bute Parks Partnership - 2009 update
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Bute Parks Alliance (www.buteparksalliance.org) presentation made to a number of organisations to update them on the encroachment of Cardiff's historic parklands.
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Bute Parks Partnership - 2009 update
- 1. 1 Bute Parks Alliance campaigning for Cardiff’s historic green spaces
- 2. Bute Park 2
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- 6. The Bute Parks complex as we call Bute Park, Sophia Gardens, Llandaff and Pontcanna Fields... are not some relict of 19th Century philanthropy 5
- 7. Sophia Gardens 6
- 8. Sophia Gardens 6
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- 11. Pontcanna Fields 9
- 12. Sophia Gardens 10
- 13. Sophia Gardens 11
- 15. Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama 13
- 16. Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama 14
- 17. Tree destruction western edge Bute Park 15
- 18. Portacabins outside Bute Castle 16
- 19. New bridge at Corbett Road 17
- 20. Breaching the tree screen along North Road 18
- 21. Cleared a year before planning consent granted 19
- 22. Bridge - cost £1.4 million 20
- 23. Bedding plants from Holland 21
- 24. A tranquil part of the park 22
- 25. Roads widened by 1-3 metres 23
- 26. Cooper’s Field, Bute Park 24
- 27. Cooper’s Fields 25
- 28. 26 Access for bigger events in Cooper’s Field and Blackweir
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- 33. Road widened to 6 metres to allow lorries to pass 31
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- 39. 35 We call on Cardiff Council to agree to an immediate moratorium on developments in the central city park complex - Bute Park, Sophia Gardens, Pontcanna Fields and Llandaff Fields - until a wide ranging public consultation has been held into their use and a future strategy agreed.
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- 44. 39 Renewing public spaces and civic society a Cardiff Civic Society event at the newly re-opened Chapter Arts Centre 7pm Thursday 19th November This event has also received the support of The Victorian Society and the Bute Parks Alliance. Details on www.cardiffpartnerships.org
Editor's Notes
- Bute Estate spent £15,000 laying out 41 acres - 1854 In March 1897 it "will be a place for public assembly for the people of Cardiff" 24 acres landscaped by Alexander Roos as a Continental garden Opened to public to compensate for closure of the castle grounds First municipal park in Cardiff - pleasure ground, ornamental lake and walks, fountains and many other features now lost.
- It began, as so often, by enclosure and exclusion - public prohibited in favour of deer. By 1873 it reached its peak with the work of Andrew Pettigrew But even the Butes' had to eat - in early 20th century they added a vegetable garden 1947 some of the land was given other parts purchased with ratepayers money. In 1924 Council plans to drive a roadway through the park were defeated "an act of vandalism. In 2008 the Council gave itself permission to build a roadway and bridge for 40 ton lorries through Bute Park.
- In 1860 intended to extend to Llandaff Cathedral acquired in 1879 Laid out in 1901 - including features such as the Lime Avenue In 1947 swimming pool exists The avenue was cut by Western Avenue and the College developed on part of the parkland Llandaff Fierlds Vociferous local campaign in 1898 to prevent develop and bring into public ownership Contributors included the Thomsons who in 1912 gifted Thomson Park to the city Originally landscaped with fountain, pool, rockery and fern dell