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About Penarth

Penarth is  a beautiful seaside town just outside Cardiff, it has an impressive Victorian pier with a stony shingle beach. The town was a highly popular holiday destination during the victorian era and was known as the “The Garden by the Sea”, and is well deserved as over the years delightful green spaces have been created throughout the town. Penarth is still considered to have some of the finest Victorian architecture in South Wales.

The town is approximately 4 miles from the centre of Cardiff and is very popular with commuters. Penarths’ location allows residents to enjoy all of Cardiff’s facilities at the same time as protecting it’s independance from the capital city.
Penarth has a population of approximately 24,000 people, making it the second largest town in the Vale of Glamorgan. It has a bustling town centre and high achieving schools in St Cyres comprehensive and Stanwell School, with excellent nursery and primary schools throughout the town.

The transformation of Penarth’s disused docks area into a new residential and leisure marina quarter, has set the tone for the further development towards Cardiff Bay. The Cardiff Bay Barrage now links Penarth with Cardiff and as well as incorporating locks and bridges, it has been landscaped to create a linear park stretching across the bay.
Penarth is still under going regeneration in the way of a redevelopment of a 1960’s housing estate and the recent  opening of a cycle and pedestrian bridge linking Penarth to the rest of Cardiff Bay and the International Sports Village.

About Cardiff

Cardiff is a busy cosmopolitan city that has been transformed over recent years with a £200 million re-development of the Cardiff Bay area and more recently a £675 million shopping centre.

Cardiff Bay is the home to the Welsh Assembly Government and a waterfront mecca of restaurants, cinemas, 10 pin bowling, casino, cafe-bars, nightclubs and boutique style shopping, notable buildings include the outstanding Millenium Centre (not to be confused with the Millenium stadium) the St Davids Hotel and the Senedd.  More recently, the International Sports village is in the process of being developed and currently boasts a comprehensive White Water rafting centre , International swimming pool and an Ice skating rink.

Residential development in the Bay has consisted of mainly new build apartments, and as a result sales prices have stagnated, however the rental market has held up well with high levels of occupancy.

The city centre is home to the Millenium stadium, headquarters of the Welsh Rugby Union and to the south is the newly built Cardiff City Football stadium. Cardiff has a great sporting history from the hosting of the Rugby World Cup in 1999, the Wales GB rally to the Ryder Cup in 2010. It has produced sporting heros including Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy, Colin Jackson and Tanni Grey-Thompson.

To the north and east of the city are Roath, Adamsdown, Gabalfa, Plasnewydd, Penylan, Cathays and Splott. To the South are Butetown, Grangetown, Riverside and Canton while, to the West lies Ely, Fairwater and Caerau.

On the ouskirts of the City lie Whitchurch, Llanishen, Lisvane, Thornhill, Cyncoed, Llandaff, Llandaff North, Michaelston Super Ely, Rhiwbina, Heath, Radyr, Pontprennau, Lanrumney, Rumney, Trowbridge, Pentwyn, Llanedeyryn and St Mellons.

What could be termed as outlying areas of Cardiff comprise of Tongwynlais, St Fagans, Creigau, Gwaelod-y-Garth, Culverhouse cross and Taffs well.
Cardiff is the youngest european capital city after being proclaimed the capital of Wales in 1955. With a population of approximately 330,000 people.