Good morning Cardiff!
Today the council's planning committee will meet at 2.30pm – we previewed which contested applications will be discussed in City Hall on the blog yesterday. Read the blogpost here. You can also submit your questions to the planning department here. We'll bring you all the latest news from the meeting on the blog.
Have you noticed a campaign against the application for a Hooters bar in Cardiff? Cardiff Feminist Network will meet outside John Lewis at midday today to protest at the American dining chain. Read a report following the Hooters application on ITV Wales here.
What's making Cardiff tick today?
In the news, good news for Castle arcade – the Victorian Cardiff icon is full of traders and hopeful about the future Castle quarter development. Read the report on WalesOnline.
One of the applications under discussion in City Hall today – Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has hit back after local traders have campaigned against their plans to open a Local store in Llanrumney. Read the article here.
A man from Sully has sailed to Flat Holm Island in a Kayak and bridal dress to raise money for charity reports BBC Wales.
South Wales Police are appealing for help on locating a 19-year-old man who went missing after a night out in Cardiff. Have you seen Bryn Warren? Read more on Welsh Icons here.
The latest issue of the Cardiff north local publication Living Magazines is out – have you been enjoying the new blog as much as we have?
Founder of Castle Arcade food gem, Café Minuet, Marcello Genesi is to retire after 24 years, reports yourCardiff.
Boiler House let us know about their graffiti jam taking place on 29 August.
New film, The Acid Real, premieres at Cardiff Arts Institute. Set in Cardiff, the film is based on the book by John Evans. Evans said:
"The film is a postmodern documentary, a journey through Cardiff and the South Wales Valleys. The Acid Real juxtaposes urbanisation with the natural world, and hopelessness and alienation against beauty and the power of love. It shows how the local has now become the international and the international has become the local.
"There's the glitter, neon, and bustle of Cardiff Bay at night, and the empty grey terraced rows of the valleys. Dilapidated shopping precincts and glitzy new retail parks contrasted by nightjars at dusk on a valleys hillside, and red kites floating over the mountain tops. Soldiers and civilians dying in the heat of the desert while young couples walk hand in hand through lush green fields."
Read more on the Cardiff Arts Institute blog.
Wales Green Party have said Cardiff Council's boasts about recycling and treatment of waste from the city are embarrassing. Green party member Matt Townsend says:
"When we criticised the council for sending waste to Derbyshire we were promised by the Lib Dem council leader that within a year we would have a plant in Cardiff to compost it locally. Two years later and they are taking it to Gloucester instead. They should be embarrassed about this latest news, not boasting about it. Everyone thinks it's crazy to take lorry loads of old food to England every week - how out of touch are our current councillors to think this is good news?"
Read the post on their blog here. Read our post on the news of the city's waste treatment location here.
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