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16-415: The campus opened in 2009 as part of the major Leckwith Development , which included a new football and rugby stadium, Cardiff City Stadium , and a retail park. In July 2015, Cardiff Council let the stadium and its grounds to Cardiff and Vale College , who further sublet the sports facilities to Cardiff City House of Sport. This lease runs for 30 years as a result of which the stadium is no longer open to

32-597: Is home to Cardiff City F.C. club. The stadium also hosted the home matches of the Cardiff Blues rugby union team until the 2011–12 season. It is the second largest stadium in Cardiff and also Wales (the largest being the Millennium Stadium ). The stadium cost £29,000,000, Laing O'Rourke was contracted for the whole development. The new athletics stadium, built to replace the previous Cardiff Athletics Stadium which

48-667: The 1994 Commonwealth Games if Cardiff had hosted it. The athletes to have competed at the stadium included Linford Christie , Colin Jackson , and Jamie Baulch . The stadium has now been demolished to make way for the Cardiff City Stadium , which is part of the Leckwith development and also retail units as part of the development. A new athletics facility has been built just across the Leckwith Road about 100 metres away as part of

64-457: The Cardiff City F.C. reserve and ladies teams used the available facilities. The athletics track had a synthetic surface measuring 400 metres with 8 circular lanes and 10 straight lanes. It had been open to the public, seating 2,613 (covered) with changing rooms and all-weather floodlights . The stadium was opened in 1989. When it was built, the £5.5m stadium was considered to be suitable for

80-533: The Cardiff City House of Sport to lease Cardiff International Sports Campus. [REDACTED] Media related to Cardiff International Sports Campus at Wikimedia Commons Leckwith Development 51°27′50″N 3°11′56″W  /  51.464°N 3.199°W  / 51.464; -3.199 The Leckwith development is in the Leckwith area of southwest Cardiff , Wales. Work started in Autumn 2007 with

96-501: The allotments were planned to become the site for a new community centre for disabled children and people with learning disabilities, run by Cardiff-based charity, Vision 21 . This development was accepted by Cardiff Council on 20 October 2008, in their development control announcements. This site was to include a café, garden centre, a small shop, offices and meeting rooms. The stadium was handed over to Redrow Homes by Cardiff City chairman Peter Ridsdale on 10 September 2009. Redrow

112-447: The construction of a new stadium for Cardiff City F.C. The project consisted of: Completion of the development was planned for Spring 2010. To complete the deal, it involved a simple land-swap arrangement of existing facilities across three sites: Unfortunately, due to unforeseen issues in construction across the two council owned sites, the football club incurred additional costs. This initially resulted in an agreement to lapse

128-521: The development of the House of Sport until December 2010. In January 2009, with Cardiff City facing a winding-up order due to an outstanding £2.7M bill to HMRC , the club asked the council for permission to sell the residual 20acres to a developer. The Capital Shopping Park in Leckwith, started building at the end of 2007 and originated from the idea of a new stadium for Cardiff City FC . The retail development

144-412: The historic county of Glamorgan, as well as conference space for workshops, lectures and school groups, and a modern paper conservation studio. The retail park now rests on the site previously occupied by Cardiff's city farm. Cardiff Council originally planned for the retail park to be built on the current site of the allotments, located on Bessemer Road. Some of the unused plots at the entrance to

160-556: The public are now permitted to come and watch the events that are taking place on the track or field in the now completed stand. The track and field are now open for public use. The Glamorgan Record Office moved to a site behind the new football stadium from the Glamorgan Building in Cathays Park at the end of 2009. The newly renamed Glamorgan Archives offers facilities for visitors to search its 8.5 km of archives relating to

176-513: The public during the day, although evening opening is unaffected. The original completion date of the main stadium building and floodlighting of the running track was moved back from May 2008 to early September 2008. The stadium has replaced the older Cardiff Athletics Stadium , which has been demolished as part of the overall Leckwith development , which includes the Cardiff City Stadium . The £5.7million project took 46 weeks to build. The official opening of Cardiff International Sports Campus

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192-618: Was completed in 2009 and has a total of 21 tenants including Costco , Asda , ScS, Next, Hobbycraft, Smyths Toys and Costa. It has 13,935-square-metre (150,000 sq ft) of retail space. It was originally owned by Capital Retail Park Partnership, which is owned by commercial developer PMG, but in February 2014 it was sold to Aberdeen Asset Management for £59.65 million. Matalan were named in an original planning application, but pulled out in March 2005. The new stadium has 33,280 seats and

208-454: Was demolished to make room for the new rugby and football stadium . Construction started in March 2007. The athletics stadium is the only part of the development to not be built by the main contractor, Laing O'Rourke and instead individual contractor, Cowlin Construction. The stadium will include a gym, meeting rooms, and several offices, which should be completed in the new year. Members of

224-603: Was named Bartley Wilson Way after the founder of Cardiff FC. Cardiff Athletics Stadium The Cardiff Athletics Stadium (also known as Leckwith Athletics Stadium ) was an athletics and football stadium in Cardiff , Wales . It opened in 1989 and was demolished in 2007, replaced by the Cardiff International Sports Stadium . The Cardiff Grange Quins of the Welsh Football League and

240-454: Was on 19 January 2009, attended by former Welsh athletics star Colin Jackson . Stadium capacity is 4,953; 2,553 seated and 2,400 standing. The stadium includes a gym, AstroTurf pitches, meeting rooms, and offices. It also includes the headquarters of Welsh Athletics —the sport's governing body for Wales—and Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club . In 2015 Cardiff Council approved a proposal put forward by Cardiff and Vale College and

256-495: Was to build 142 new homes on the site. The development was still to be known as Ninian Park. A planted square was proposed at the centre of the new housing development, in the area of Ninian Park football ground's centre spot. The first show home of the £24m development was to open by late spring 2010, with a mixture of terraced, detached and semi-detached houses. The estate welcomed its first residents in November 2010. The main road

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