{"id":675714,"date":"2026-07-05T22:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675714\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:33:13","slug":"cardiff-bay-barrage-brings-no-benefits-to-local-people-says-campaigner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675714\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Bay barrage brings no benefits to local people, says campaigner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cardiff Bay barrage has brought &#8220;no benefits&#8221; to local communities, according to a campaigner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gaynor Legall, a former councillor in the city&#8217;s Butetown area, said that &#8220;very few people&#8221; from her community visited the bay as they felt it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t meant for us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opened to the public in 2001, the barrage transformed an area of tidal mudflats into a 200\u2011hectare freshwater lake in Cardiff Bay, paving the way for shops, bars and restaurants to open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Cardiff Council leader Huw Thomas said the barrage had &#8220;changed the impression of Cardiff on the world stage&#8221; but said further redevelopment was needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The barrage was first proposed in the 1980s by the then Conservative Welsh secretary Nicholas Edwards, as a way to tackle deprivation in an area affected by the decline of heavy industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The structure traps water from the Taff and Ely rivers, without which the bay would be without water for much of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardiff Bay barrage has brought &#8220;no benefits&#8221; to local communities, according to a campaigner. Gaynor Legall, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}