Cardiff Council Update: 22 March 2022

Here is the latest update from Cardiff Council, covering: road closures for the Cardiff University Cardiff Half Marathon on March 27^th; Cardiff allotment group reaps benefits of charity windfall; and coronavirus in numbers.

Road closures for the Cardiff University Cardiff Half Marathon on March 27^th

Cardiff Half Marathon will take place on Sunday, March 27^thand with 15,000 people expected to take part in the event the city is expected to be exceptionally busy.

The following road closures will be put in place at the Civic Centre from Wednesday, March 23^rdin order to set up and dismantle the race village for the event.

From 5am on Wednesday, March 23^rduntil midday on Tuesday, March 29^th

College Road will be closed from the junction with Museum Avenue to the junction with King Edward VII Avenue (access will be maintained until 6am on Saturday, 26^thMarch.)

From 5am on Thursday March 24th until midday on Tuesday, March 29^th

King Edward VII Avenue will be closed up to the junction with Boulevard de Nantes and to the junction with City Hall Road. Access for businesses and emergency services will be permitted from Wednesday, March 23^rduntil Friday March 25^thand on Monday March 28^th, but no access will be allowed on Saturday, March 26^thor Sunday, March 27^th.

From 5am on Friday March 25^thuntil midnight on Sunday, March 27^th

The following roads will be closed:

King Edward VII (Junction with Boulevard de Nantes to the junction with City Hall Road, and from the junction with Corbett Road to the junction with City Hall Road)
Museum Avenue from the closed end with Corbett Road to the junction with Gorsedd Gardens Road
Gorsedd Gardens Road
City Hall Road from its junction with Museum Avenue to its junction with North Road.

Between 4am and 12 noon on Sunday, March 27^th

The following roads will be closed:

North Road south of the junction with Boulevard de Nantes to the junction with the A4161
The A4161 from the junction with North Road to its junction with Kingsway,
Kingsway from the junction with the A4161 to the junction with Duke Street
Duke Street and Castle Street
Cowbridge Road East from the junction with Castle Street to the junction with Cathedral Road.

Between 6am and 10.45am on Sunday March 27^th

The following roads will be closed:

North Road from the junction with Colum Road to the junction with Boulevard de Nantes (access to Blackweir via Park Place/Corbett Road, northbound up North Road).

Between 10am and 3.10pm

The following roads will be closed:

Colum Road
Park Place from the junction with St Andrews Place to the junction with Colum Road

On both Saturday March 26^thand Sunday March 27^th

The following access arrangements will be facilitated:

Access only into Beatty Avenue from the junction with Lake Road North (including Jellicoe Gardens, Keyes Avenue and Tyrwhitt Crescent).
Access to and from Queen Anne Square will be managed via North Road / Corbett Road.
Lady Mary Road from the junction with Maryport Road to the junction with Lake Road East.

There will be a rolling road closure from 8.30am until 3.10pm to facilitate the route on the following roads

Cowbridge Road East from the junction with Cathedral Road to the junction with Neville Street
Wellington Street, Leckwith Road and Sloper Road
Penarth Road, Cardiff Bay Barrage, Harbour Drive and Roald Dahl Plas
Bute Place, Lloyd George Avenue and Herbert Street
Tyndall Street, East Tyndall Street and Windsor Road
Adam Street, Fitzalan Place going across Newport Road
West Grove, Richmond Road and Albany Road
Marlborough Road, Pen-Y-Lan Road and Ninian Road
Fairoak Road, Lake Road East and Lake Road West - access to Cathay's cemetery will be facilitated via Allensbank Road up until Fairoak Road opens, when access will be re-opened via the main entrance
Cathays Terrace, Corbett Road and Museum Avenue

If the route is completed earlier, then these roads will be open before 3.10pm.

The bus gate on Westgate Street will be suspended for the duration of this event from 8.30am until 3.10pm on March 27^th.

Cardiff allotment group reaps benefits of charity windfall

One of Cardiff's most culturally diverse allotment associations is planning to make gardening accessible to the disabled and beginners after securing a large charity windfall.

Pengam Pavilion Allotments, off Rover Way in Pengam, has been a site for keen gardeners since 1927 and currently has around 70 members producing a wide range of produce, including fruit, vegetables and flowers.

They have spent years cultivating the land themselves, supported by Cardiff Council's allotment services team, and making good use of their limited funds by recycling materials to make sheds and polytunnels.

Now, however, they have received a major donation from building supplies company Travis Perkins in the form of railway sleepers and other materials to help develop a reclaimed corner of their site and create new plots suitable for new and disabled gardeners.

The Pengam allotments association president, Dennis Ramsey, said the donation - from Travis Perkins' Legacy Fund - came after he and his members had worked hard to clear a half-acre area that was overgrown with brambles and trees.