Time for Welsh Government to show some real enterprise Wales is increasingly in danger of losing development money to England, warns Gareth Hooper, partner at planning consultancy DPP

To lever the amounts of investment required by Cardiff council's proposal requires relocation by some of the country's biggest companies, and when they now have the option of moving to nearby Bristol, where planning legislation is being rolled back and tax breaks are on offer, you don'...

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Published inWestern mail (Cardiff, Wales : 1956)
Main Author Hooper, Gareth
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cardiff (UK) MGN Ltd 17.08.2011
Subjects
Central business districts
Enterprise zones
Housing developments
Local elections
Proposals
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Summary:To lever the amounts of investment required by Cardiff council's proposal requires relocation by some of the country's biggest companies, and when they now have the option of moving to nearby Bristol, where planning legislation is being rolled back and tax breaks are on offer, you don't have to be a shrewd businessman to figure out that Cardiff is likely to lose out.