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Bellway and Persimmon/Charles Church created further housing between the AWE site and the HMRC building.", "narrative": null, "narrative_license": null, "narrative_source": null, "zoning_change": null, "public_subsidy": null, "entitlement_year": null, "planning_notes": null, "wikidata_qid": null, "wikipedia": null, "osm_id": null, "verified": "draft", "verified_by": null, "last_verified": null, "last_updated": "2026-10-18", "created": "2026-10-18", "contributor_name": null, "contributor_org": null, "contributor_link": null, "international": 1, "county_fips": null, "opp_score": null, "opp_reasons": null, "for_sale": 0, "distressed": 0, "url": "https://retrofitatlas.org/industrial/uk/cardiff-rof-cardiff/", "events": [{"year": 1940, "date": null, "kind": "opened", "detail": "Opened", "source_id": null}, {"year": 1997, "date": null, "kind": "closed", "detail": "Closed", "source_id": null}, {"year": 1997, "date": null, "kind": "retrofit", "detail": "Retrofit: redevelop, regreen", "source_id": null}], "sources": [{"id": 9102, "site_id": "n-6af7f3a936", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanishen", "title": "Llanishen", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "date": null, "quote": "ROF Cardiff", "kind": "wikipedia", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "retrieved": "2026-10-18"}], "deals": [], "parties": [], "parcels": [], "context": {"assessment": {"what_happened": "ROF Cardiff, a former munitions factory and Atomic Weapons Establishment (opened 1940, closed 1997), was retrofitted in 1997 under a 'redevelop, regreen' strategy. New uses include housing and park space. Post-retrofit, housing developments by George Wimpey (Parklands), Barratt (Ty Glas Square), Leadbitter (Llys Enfys), and later Bellway/Persimmon/Charles Church were built. The site is adjacent to HM Government buildings (proposed) and other built clusters within 10km. Unknown: exact park size, housing density, or environmental metrics.", "why": "Record confirms retrofit strategy, timeline, and developer-led housing projects. Context clusters (e.g., HM Government buildings) are noted but not detailed in the site's record.", "where_it_stands": "A completed retrofit with housing as primary new use, aligned with peer sites that closed in the 1990s and adopted similar strategies.", "for_a_planner": ["Adjacent to proposed government buildings", "Housing developments already underway"], "for_a_developer": ["Existing housing projects by major developers", "Regreen strategy implies park integration"], "risks_and_unknowns": ["No data on park implementation", "No details on housing mix or community impact"], "data_quality": "partial", "one_line": "Former AWE site retrofitted 1997 to housing/park; housing projects by major developers underway; adjacent to proposed government buildings.", "model": "qwen3-30b-a3b-64k:latest", "machine": "Dell 5820 RTX 3090 (Ollama, qwen3-30b-a3b)", "record_sha1": "fb100eee2b09"}, "cluster": {"within_10km": [{"id": "n-046c375710", "name": "HM Government buildings at Parc Tŷ Glas", "city": "Cardiff", "status": "proposed", "km": 0.0}, {"id": "n-30f8b9679c", "name": "Bonded Warehouse", "city": "Cardiff", "status": "built", "km": 0.0}, {"id": "n-4284106b41", "name": "Orchards complex", "city": "Cardiff", "status": "built", "km": 0.0}, {"id": "n-db18155e4b", "name": "Atlantic Wharf", "city": "Cardiff", "status": "built", "km": 1.4}], "count_10km": 4, "count_25km": 4}, "peers": {"peers": [{"id": "n-4d791ab853", "name": "Camarillo State Mental Hospital", "city": "Camarillo", "state": "CA", "score": 6.5, "why": ["opened 1936", "closed 1996", "same strategy: redevelop"]}, {"id": "n-ab2a7f57d8", "name": "Shanghai Jiangwan Airport", "city": "Shanghai", "state": null, "score": 6.5, "why": ["opened 1939", "closed 1994", "same strategy: redevelop, regreen"]}, {"id": "m-585dc57c2e", "name": "St Charles Mall", "city": "St Charles", "state": "IL", "score": 5.5, "why": ["closed 1995", "same strategy: redevelop"]}, {"id": "m-2bd2cb975c", "name": "Muskegon Mall", "city": "Muskegon", "state": "MI", "score": 5.5, "why": ["closed 2001", "same strategy: redevelop"]}, {"id": "m-b8b81de54b", "name": "Rockville Mall", "city": "Rockville", "state": "MD", "score": 5.5, "why": ["closed 1995", "same strategy: redevelop"]}, {"id": "m-5f44df2309", "name": "Cinderella Mall", "city": "Englewood", "state": "CO", "score": 5.5, "why": ["closed 1997", "same strategy: redevelop, regreen"]}], "method": "size, era, strategy, status, type, state, distance"}}, "elements": [{"slug": "place-mall-cluster", "name": "3+ other atlas sites within 10 km", "group_": "place", "evidence": "4 within 10 km", "origin": "computed"}, {"slug": "era-closed-1990s", "name": "Closed 1990s", "group_": "era", "evidence": "1997", "origin": "newtypes-extraction"}, {"slug": "strategy-redevelop", "name": "Redeveloped", "group_": "strategy", "evidence": "major housing developments by George Wimpey (called Parklands), Barratt (Ty Glas Square) and Leadbitter (Llys Enfys. 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