About this episode

Laura explores Cardiff's initiatives for cycling and environmental resilience.

In this episode Laura visits Cardiff to see what the Welsh capital city is doing for cycling and making the city greener and more resilient in the face of extreme weather. In 2015 Greener Grangetown was completed a city centre project to improve water management and reduce huge volumes of water being transported to water processing plants, and to improve flood resilience. 12 Victorian streets were transformed, and the UK's first cycle street was built, with more than 100 trees planted, safer junctions and improved pavements. In 2019, the Senedd, the devolved government of Wales, enacted legislation to mandate flood management measures on any construction that impacts an area of 100m2 or more. This means developers have to include natural water management measures, like SuDS - sustainable drainage systems - which are highly technical planted areas, which sit alongside roads, cycle routes and pavements. Since then, it is understood that thousands of housing developments have been impacted. The result in Cardiff is an increasingly green city - but it all takes money and time to implement, and progress on Cardiff's cycle network is not as fast as campaigners would like. Laura talks…

People in this episode

Host: Laura

Guests: Simon Dooley, Cllr Dan De'Ath, Daffydd Trystan

Topics covered

• cycling
• urban planning
• environment
• flood management
• sustainability
• green infrastructure

Keywords

• Cardiff
• cycling routes
• flood management
• green city
• sustainable drainage systems
• urban development
• climate change

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cardiff Council, Senedd, Greener Grangetown

Places: Cardiff, Wales

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