Plans submitted for huge 50-storey skyscraper that will be tallest building in Wales

I note that the artist's impression is looking down on and not up to this massive block of flats; it will be 20 storeys higher than anything else in the city.

Swansea has a tall building. Cardiff then has to have something taller.

Not that I care, but that is SE of the stadium and even with the roof open, it will throw the field into the shade all morning along with that other one North of it. And in the cooler months throw the outside seating of a number of bars into the shade including (checks Google Maps) Brewdog, Queens Vaults and Zero Degrees in Westgate street and also more venuies in St Mary's Street (though they might already be in shade from the tall buildings on the Western side anyway. I don't currently have the tools to do a sun path study but this will happen. Just for about an hour at a time like a massive, ugly, oversized sundial

So ugly and unnecessary.

No!

Where's the imagination? For example, other cities have 'green' foliage covered highrises not ugly steel skyscrapers.

Looks like the design of the building is inspired by the cells of an Excel spreadsheet.

As one commentator has mentioned, a building that just blocks out the sun in a city that is hardly known for its sunshine. Horrendous. What is particularly disgraceful is that I presume all the flats will just be for rent, with the landlord being an international pension fund or similar? No affordable housing either. I just cannot believe this project is even being considered.

This is a ridiculous idea, compromising security of a packed stadium and the occupants of the building. There is plenty of other space needing redevelopment in Wales. Really stupid.

Any building should not be visible from any seat within the Principality Stadium

Pathetic. Unless its a much needed hospital

Cardiff now has a uniformity of a maximum 30 storeys, so this carbuncle stinks of the 'look at me attitude' trying to overshadow one of the the best stadiums in the world. It may as well have a pink cowboy hat on the top to reflect those fans that have moved in on the rugby. Restrict the height to the uniform and original 30. But this decision will be made by individuals in Cardiff Council, who hopefully haven't found a modern replacement to that scheme where they received shares in development companies they were meant to be regulating!

What happens when a resident makes a noise complaint?

Looks good to me,.....height is not intrinsically a bad thing, esp if a high-quality design? (and more density is a good thing). If a developer can afford and build a high-quality scheme like this, all well and good. PS if we want more affordable homes (I do) then the public sector needs to step up and build them....the Private Sector will never build out at the scale or price we need to address that market failure.

A blight on the landscape . We are known world wide for being a beautiful small city. A city of sunshine and open spaces. A building of this size is not needed in our city.. besides the city center streets already dealing with traffic chaos. This building will add to it. And a building this size will be blocking out the sunshine for a vast area of the city center. What use is it. We have some beautiful hotels ,that struggle to get filled . Build it on the outskirts . With a much improved train and bus service , this would decrease the traffic and pollution , this Labour council is always on about decreasing . But their ideal solution is to charge the citizens and visitors coming into Cardiff for the privilege . Just another tax to pay . And if they talk about the hundreds of jobs constructing it . Those hundreds of jobs will still be there . Wherever they build it. Maybe it's a disguise for another migrant hotel. Giving our city more no go areas in our city than Manchester or London. ???

I'd love to know who the people are renting or buying the hundreds of extremely expensive flats & apartments in all of these tower blocks in the city centre. This isn't London with a big financial sector. It's Cardiff, a very small City. My suspicion is that the true purpose of these monstrosity's has yet to be revealed, and we may end up seeing all of the illegal immigrants currently housed in hotels moved onto them. Or, they will be used to house the thousands of newly unemployed & homeless people after the next financial crash, war, rise of AI or whatever the globalists have planned for us next.

When visiting Paris one of the most wonderful thing you notice is the lack of tall buildings/skyscrapers. Pity Cardiff is now putting these up, it won't be the last I expect.

Typical Cardiff, gets everything. Nothing for north or mid Wales.. Typical no investment in Wrexham. The South get it all...