Cardiff Central Bus Station - Redevelopment

Redevelopment

The station is being redeveloped from 2008. Demolition of the old terminal buildings (between stand A and Wood Street stands) started on 11 January 2008, when services that usually stop at the terminal buildings began to no longer serve these stops and instead pick up at Castle Street and Westgate Street. On 6 May 2008, Stand A at the bus station closed for demolition of the terminal buildings.

As of 4 January 2009, some services reverted to using the bus station, whilst others remained split between the alternative terminal points and the bus station depending on day and time.

A multi-million-pound modernisation of Cardiff central bus station was announced in December 2010. Cardiff Council has devised three options, following consultation. The public were to be asked to decide on their preferences during a two-month consultation period. In December 2011 the Council announced that the existing bus station would close in early 2013 and the new bus station would be built on the site of the neighbouring Wood Street NCP Car Park. The new bus station would open in Summer 2014, and provide 19 bays and have direct access to Westgate Street and St. Mary Street via Saunders Road. This would allow the bus station to remain open during Millennium Stadium events. A further announcement was made in January 2012, that negotiations were underway to sell off the existing bus station land to two major companies, who would build a 12-storey headquarters on the site. Part of the proceeds from the sale would be put towards redesign and redevelopment of Central Square, which would be renamed 'Capital Square'. These plans were put into doubt in May 2012 with the election of a new Labour-led council.