Case Studies
Cardiff Sports Village
In 2001, Cardiff County Council selected Orion to be their Master-Developer for the Cardiff International Sports Village. The partly contaminated 80-acre site in Cardiff Bay was to form an important part in Cardiff’s bid to stage the Commonwealth Games. Orion achieved planning consent for 1,000 residential bay-side homes, selling the site to a US based company for the highest residential land value achieved in Wales at that time. Planning consent included a 50m Commonwealth Games standard swimming pool, 100,000sq ft of A3 and leisure space, a conference centre, a new arena for the Cardiff Ice Devils, Toys R Us and a Morrisons super store.