{"id":29687,"date":"2018-11-13T17:53:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=29687"},"modified":"2018-11-13T17:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:53:16","slug":"future-of-waungron-road-recycling-centre-site-remains-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/11\/13\/future-of-waungron-road-recycling-centre-site-remains-unclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of Waungron Road recycling site remains unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CONSTRUCTION vehicles are clearing the site of the controversial former Waungron Road recycling centre, but Cardiff council is not saying what it&#8217;s being cleared for.<br \/>\nThe centre was upgraded in a \u00a31 million project in 2008\/09, but was closed in April 2014, with the council claiming it could no longer afford to run it.<br \/>\nA campaign to re-open the centre started shortly afterwards, and led to a vote on March 5, 2015, in which more than 1,800 residents voted in favour with just four against.<br \/>\nHowever, the vote was not binding on the council and it chose not to reopen the recycling centre.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29726\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-29726 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-770x577.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29726 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-770x577.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/11\/waungron-2-1-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/noscript> Construction vehicles arriving at the former recycling centre today<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFairwater Councillor Neil McEvoy, told <em>The Cardiffian<\/em>: \u201cThe obvious thing to do is to reopen the recycling centre. It served huge numbers of people in the local area. The only reason the issue will not be revisited by the council is that it highlights previous bad decisions.\u201d<br \/>\nInstead, Cardiff Council has proposed to build a bus interchange on the site. The plan was billed as a way to improve Cardiff\u2019s bus service, particularly given the expected increase in passengers created by the housing development between St Fagans and Radyr.<br \/>\nPlanning permission for a bus interchange was granted on November 1, 2016, but the proposals have faced opposition and delays.<br \/>\nWhen asked about the future of the site today, Cardiff Council said \u201cany future development would be subject to planning\u201d.<br \/>\nCouncillor Keith Parry, said: \u201cThe bus service plan is ridiculous. It will add unnecessary time on to bus journeys from Ely to the centre.\u201d<br \/>\nThere are also fears the interchange could create traffic problems.<br \/>\nResident Bernard Eccles, 71, said: \u201cThe bus interchange doesn\u2019t make sense, there\u2019s not enough room for the buses to get in and out. The old recycling centre was great, you could be in and out very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONSTRUCTION vehicles are clearing the site of the controversial former Waungron Road recycling centre, but Cardiff council is not saying what it&#8217;s being cleared for. The centre was upgraded in a \u00a31 million project in 2008\/09, but was closed in April 2014, with the council claiming it could no longer afford to run it. A campaign to re-open the centre started shortly afterwards, and led to a vote on March 5, 2015, in which more than 1,800 residents voted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":29713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Future of Waungron Road recycling site remains unclear - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/11\/13\/future-of-waungron-road-recycling-centre-site-remains-unclear\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Future of Waungron Road recycling site remains unclear - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CONSTRUCTION vehicles are clearing the site of the controversial former Waungron Road recycling centre, but Cardiff council is not saying what it&#8217;s being cleared for. 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