Property
Major Deals Commission for Equality and Human Rights 3 Callaghan Square
7,500 sq ft
British Transport Police 3 Callaghan Square
14,000 sq ft
Centrica 4 Callaghan Square
68,000 sq ft
Deloitte 5 Callaghan Square
19,000 sq ft
B3 Architects 5 Callaghan Square
4,500 sq ft
New Law Helmont House
24,000 sq ft
British Council 1 Kingsway
5,000 sq ft
Cardiff University 2-4 Park Grove
15,000 sq ft
Cardiff University 1 Museum Place
11,000 sq ft
HID Greenmeadow Springs
7,500 sq ft
Freshwater Cardiff Gate
8,000 sq ft
Technium incubator space
Opus International Fountain Court, St Mellons
7,500 sq ft
Innovation centres
NSPCC Ocean Park
15,000 sq ft
City Centre and out of town retail
NFU Celtic Gateway
12,500 sq ft
Arts Council for Wales Wales Millennium Centre
10,500 sq ft
Ranked 2nd best city for value for money office space in the UK Cardiff has a wide range of property options to suit every business need. Within the office, industrial and retail sectors a wide variety of accommodation is available offering an extensive choice to occupiers.
The Cardiff Commercial Property Forum was set up in 2004 as a collective voice for the property sector in the region, acknowledging the importance of the capital city as a driver of economic prosperity and investment, not only for the region but for Wales as a whole. The Forum is always looking for new ways to promote Cardiff, both inside and outside Wales, which continues to be the key objective. The Forum has also held corporate events at the Dorchester Hotel in London in recent years promoting Cardiff to a London based audience of over 400 occupiers and investors.
Grade A office accommodation (city centre & business park) Refurbished offices Serviced offices
The CCPF was actively involved in two events during 2008/9 in The Cardiff Debate and The People in Property Awards. It was the Forum’s third Cardiff Debate, hosted during a difficult economic time for the property sector that proved to be a great success delivering a vigorous debate to over 190 guests. The panel members were made up of a banker, commercial property developer, transport officer, consulting engineer and local council member each bringing a different insight to some of the most topical and important issues facing the property market in Cardiff today.
Prime industrial Refurbished industrial Hybrid business units
Helmont House
The New Library
Millennium Stadium
10 Reasons to choose Cardiff Cardiff has experienced major transformation over recent years, emerging as an exciting, vibrant and attractive European capital city. The city has clear ambitions to sustain this momentum and to propel itself forward as a premier league European capital over the next two decades. Cardiff & Co has been created to help Cardiff realise this vision, by bringing together local stakeholders and the private sector into a single collaborative agenda to market and promote the city to a national and international audience. The company represents a new approach for the city, a new model of service delivery, based on strong partnership working and funded through a variety of public and private sector sources and commercially generated income. The company aims to help Cardiff become a top five UK shopping destination and a top 10 UK short break destination. It aims to help the city improve its position in the top 10 of UK conference cities, grow its reputation as a top 10 UK university city, and importantly, re-position the city and Wales as a high quality and competitive inward investment location. www.investincardiff.com
Closest European capital to London
2. WORKFORCE
One of the UK’s highest skilled talent pools
3. ECONOMY
Ranked 4th for growth potential in the UK
4. COMPETITIVE
Ranked 3rd in overall competitiveness
5. WELCOMING
400+ overseas companies
6. UNIVERSITIES
Three major University Institutes
7. COMMUNICATIONS
The UK’s most transport-friendly city
8. ICT
Launch-pad for £10billion ICT investment
9. PROPERTY
Ranked 2nd best city for value for money office space in the UK
10. LIFESTYLE
13th must see global destination
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Key Contacts: Forum Members
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1. LOCATION
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Alder King
Sian Cornwell
+44 (0) 2920 381 995
BNP Paribas
Mark Sutton
+44 (0) 2920 640 111
Burnett Davies
Adele Paterson
+44 (0) 2920 621 162
Calan Retail
Nick Carter
+44 (0) 2920 373 933
Cardiff Council
Roy Edwards
+44 (0) 2920 873 387
Cardiff & Co
Carys Pugh D’Auria
+44 (0) 2920 872 906
Cooke & Arkwright
Roger Thomas (Chairman)
+44 (0) 2920 346 346
DTZ
Alex Easton
+44 (0) 2920 262 256
E J Hales
Simon Watson-James
+44 (0) 2920 378 844
Emanuel Jones
David Williams
+44 (0) 2920 811 581
Fletcher Morgan
John James
+44 (0) 2920 378 921
Gerald Eve
Richard Gatehouse
+44 (0) 2920 388 044
GVA Grimley
Steve Gibbon
+44 (0) 2920 248 907
King Sturge
Huw Thomas
+44 (0) 2920 227 666
Knight Frank
Rhydian Morris
+44 (0) 2920 492492
Lambert Smith Hampton Steve Matheson
+44 (0) 2920 490 499
Merlin
Bruce Morris
+44 (0) 2920 304 050
Michael Graham Young
Mark Iles
+44 (0) 2920 465 466
Savills
Gary Carver
+44 (0) 2920 368 963
Stephenson & Alexander Peter Graham 3 Assembly Square
Callaghan Square
+44 (0) 2920 340 244
Cardiff
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St David’s Hotel & Spa
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Size The tables below set out the 2006 and 2007 population sizes for Cardiff, South East Wales, Wales and Great Britain based on mid-year estimates, together with the 2006 based population projections for Wales and the 2003 based population projections for South East Wales.
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Cardiff (numbers)
South East Wales
Wales (numbers)
England and Wales
Great Britain (numbers)
321,000 156,700 164,300
1,477,900 719,800 758,100
2,980,000 1,454,000 1,526,000
54,072,000 26,568,500 27,503,500
59,216,200 29,054,100 30,162,100
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Total population – 2007
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South East Wales
Wales (numbers)
England and Wales
Great Britain (numbers)
317,500 154,600 162,900
1,471,700 715,800 755,900
2,965,900 1,444,800 1,521,100
53,728,900 26,371,200 27,357,700
58,845,800 28,840,600 30,005,200
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Source: ONS, Mid-year Population Estimates
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In 2007, the total population for Cardiff using mid-year estimates was 321,000. This accounted for 10.8% of the total Wales population of 2,980,000. The wider South East Wales area accounted for 49.6%, nearly half of the total Wales population. The Radisson Blu Hotel
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