The 364-flat tower will be developed by Rightacres and will feature ground-floor shops as well as communal space and a separate pavilion building which could be used as a cafe or restaurant.
The tower is set to be built on Wood Street at Central Square – near Cardiff Central Station, HMRC offices and BBC Wales headquarters – after being approved at Cardiff's planning committee this morning (8 June).
A planning report for the scheme recommended it for approval despite some unresolved issues.
The overview document, written by planning officers at the council, acknowledged that issues remained in terms of the overall "planning balance", noting that "the developer has not been able to positively respond to all identified concerns".
These concerns related to the overall number of units failing to comply with the BRE daylight/sunlight tests and the impact on daylight for neighbouring buildings, the lack of balconies, the shortfall of communal amenity space with a better split among floors, and the close relationship with neighbouring sites.
"The development is also unable to meet all of the financial obligations,"but the "importance of this development as part of the Central Square development" outweighs the identified deficiencies in the plan, the report added.
The 113-metre-tall tower block will take the title of tallest building in Wales from The Tower in Swansea, which is 107 metres tall.
Rightacres' plans for the Wood Street site in Cardiff were unveiled in 2021 but, since then, its height has increased by five storeys and the number of proposed apartments has increased from 330 to 364. It has also been repositioned half a metre further north.
The fully glazed base of the building has been increased from 5.6 metres to 10.8 metres, while the colonnade on the eastern elevation has been increased from 5.6 metres to 17.8 metres in height and from 4.2 metres to 7.2 metres in width "to provide an improved visual 'wayfinding' connection from Central Square... towards Gate 5 of the Principality Stadium", the planning overview states.