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Urban Design Report Ascension Afon Rhymni / River Rhymney by Mark Drane, Urban Habitats November 2019 Urban Design Report Ascension Afon Rhymni / River Rhymney by Mark Drane, Urban Habitats November 2019 Contents Scope | Introduction ........................................ 3 Scope | Route of the River Rhymney from its Source ............................................................. 4 Scope | Study Area ......................................... 5 ........................................................................ 5 Background | Context ...................................... 6 Fieldwork | River Section Site Visits.............. 10 Fieldwork | Interviews .................................... 15 Analysis | Land uses ..................................... 16 Analysis | Access .......................................... 17 Discussion | Valuing the River ...................... 29 Conclusions | SWOT Analysis ...................... 33 References: ................................................... 36 Links: ............................................................. 36 Appendix 2: Interview Method ................. Error! Bookmark not defined. Appendix 3: Local Development Plan Review ....................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Appendix 4: Restore Our Rivers Report Review ............ Error! Bookmark not defined. Ramblr Interviews and Stories: a key component of this study are available at this link: http://rblr.co/03FwP Mapping data except as stated otherwise: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2019 © URBAN HABITATS Rev WEB 01-11-19 ISSUED 01 NOVEMBER 2019 Scope | Introduction This report is thematically arranged under the Ascension is an Arts Council Wales funded following headings: project looking at the lower part of the Afon Rhymni (River Rhymney) river that runs • Scope | Introduction: an overview of scope through Cardiff. The project is led by Johana and study area. Hartwig with input from an illustrator, author, • Background: a review of a range of and engineer in conjunction with RSPB and historical and other context data. based in ‘Spit n Sawdust’ a skatepark and • Fieldwork: desktop and interview methods. artspace close to the river off Newport Road. • Analysis | Land uses: considering the Ascension is currently in its research & varied and different types of uses development stage. adjoining the river which are a key driver Johana Hartwig is based in Cardiff and her of who is accessing the river and the types work for the last five years has focused on the of buildings along the river. city’s waterways including making textiles • Analysis | Access: considering access to based on river data, cartographic screen and views of the river around the study prints, Taff River stones carved into 'gems', area river sections. and foraged riverbank meals. • Discussion | Valuing the river: considering the value of the river as vital infrastructure The Rhymney is the most inaccessible of including aspects such as water quality, Cardiff’s 3 rivers, it is tidal and serpentine at its ecology, habitats, identity, and cultural lower part, it is beautiful and yet many people value. don't know it is there. • Conclusions | SWOT analysis: considering Responding to this, Ascension takes this work the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, in a different dimension. Compared to and threats to access and connectivity to previous work which has been small in scale the river. Including opportunities for future and deliberately domestic and horizontal study. approach, Ascension takes more of a vertical • Appendices: include further detail of approach, focusing around gaining views of historic data; methods; a policy review; the Rhymney from height. and a review of the 2017 report Restore Our Rivers by Cardiff Council. The scope of this accompanying study is to provide an urban design perspective on the The report draws on both quantitative and river and its situation with a focus on public qualitative data sources which are referenced access and connectivity and the built throughout the document. environment around the river. The study area (following page) is the fairly This includes a series of qualitative data short and meandering section of the River collected through walking interviews with adult Rhymney from where it enters the Severn residents and workers near the river. These Estuary up to where the river meets open interviews give insights into the way that amenity space at Cardiff University Playing people working and living in the vicinity of the fields. From here the character of access to river experience and value it: both as a the river changes and becomes gradually resource and potential risk. more open and accessible. This study therefore focusses on the more cut off and This method informs interpretation of other inaccessible section of the river close to the data collected during the study and also is estuary. presented as a recommendation for future work to support co-production with local communities. The basis for this approach is based in a rights based approach to health recognising the right of people to be involved in decisions that affect their health and the river as blue / green infrastructure is one such wider determinant of health. At a national level in Wales this is closely aligned to the ways of working and wellbeing goals defined in the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act (Welsh Government, 2015). © URBAN HABITATS Rev WEB 01-11-19 ISSUED 01 NOVEMBER 2019 Scope | Route of the River Rhymney from its Source (Not to scale) Study location © URBAN HABITATS Rev WEB 01-11-19 ISSUED 01 NOVEMBER 2019 Scope | Study Area (Not to scale) Wider Context Area From Rumney Playing Fields the character of the river environs changes and is more accessible (at least on the east bank). The focus is therefore the southern less accessible part. Study Focus Area © URBAN HABITATS Rev WEB 01-11-19 ISSUED 01 NOVEMBER 2019 Background | Context The City of Cardiff in South East Wales sits a significant part is, “…a vastly underused largely on a flood plain of the South East resource that could bring major benefits to the Wales River Basin through which much of the area and wider city region.” (Cardiff Council, water drainage for South East Wales flows. 2019, p.6) Unlike many other river basins in Wales many The geology and ancient history of the site is of these rivers and tributaries flow through complex and developed over many millions of urban environments, close to where people years and this is not a comprehensive review live but also to potential sources of pollution. of that history, however there are a number of notable features. Figure X highlights some The River Rhymney is one of four river valleys key site records. in Cardiff: the Taff, Ely, Nant Fawr. These rivers are integral to the 2000 hectares of At the North End of the study area there is a amenity space and 400 hectares of open Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its recreation space in the City as this ‘green’ and geological importance, the Rhymney River ‘blue’ space or infrastructure are often found Section SSSI. The geological history of South close to each other. Wales and the Severn Estuary including fault lines and glacial processes in the upper river The source of the Rhymney is at Odyn Fach valleys around the Brecon Beacons set the situated within the Brecon Beacons National scene for much of the landscape’s current Park. Several smaller tributaries feed into the character. This is then overlaid with human river, the main settlements it passes are: New changes to the landscape such as at Wentloog Tredegar, Bargoes, Ystrad Mynach, Levels to the east of the river, a large area of Llanbradach, Caerphilly, Bedwas, Trethomas, reclaimed land which has been improved since Machen, Draethen, Llanrumney, and Rumney Roman times with access for small ships at at which point it enters the Severn Estuary. Rhymney Great Wharf to the east of the mouth Cardiff’s rivers are recognised in the city’s of the river. Local Development Plan, a statutory document Evidence of historic finds and sites is recorded that sets policy for new development in the by Royal Commission on the Ancient and city. It notes that the rivers including the Historical Monuments of Wales, these show Rhymney make: evidence of activity during Neolithic, Iron Age, “…a unique contribution to the character Bronze Age, Roman, and subsequent historic and form of the city providing continuous periods. green corridors between the Severn Water has long played a part in the history of Estuary and the countryside beyond the these communities and areas including one of urban edge. The watercourses and the worst environmental disasters of British adjoining open spaces possess high history, flooding of 1603 now considered to be recreational, biodiversity, historic, cultural the result of a tsunami which engulfed communities far inland on both sides of the and landscape value. Additionally, they Severn Estuary (web source: Wikipedia, link). are located close to local communities and offer excellent opportunities for off-road access routes that can provide part of the wider strategic recreational routes and everyday network of routes.” (Cardiff Council, 2015, p.139) The continuous character of the Rhymney river from its source to the estuary is particularly notable, it is the only tidal river in Cardiff. This in itself is notable as the river flows into the Severn Estuary – which with a tidal range (from high to low tide) of about 15 metres – the second largest tidal range in the world second only to the Bay of Fundy in Canada. It is noted however that these natural settings
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