30 mins, 1998        [password required] A study of the Cardiff Bay regeneration project. Cardiff was once a major international port, but the decline in the coal and steel industry led to a decline in the docks. Unemployment soared and Cardiff docks became a depressed area. Then in the 1980s the Government began a series of urban regeneration schemes across Britain. After London Docklands, Cardiff became one of the most high-profile of the new schemes. The old industrial areas were demolished and a new area of offices and leisure facilities, called Cardiff Bay, was planned. A quango called the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was set up to guide the regeneration project, promising boom times to come. The single most expensive part of the regeneration scheme was a barrage across the mouth of the Bay. The aim is to create a freshwater lake to provide a glamorous setting for the new development. The authorities claim the Cardiff regeneration scheme has been a success. But many in Cardiff are unhappy about it. The barrage, built across the bay, cost too much, they claim and is bad for the environment. The jobs created are badly paid and residents complain of a lack of consultation.