Groundwork Insolvent

It is with enormous regret that the Board of Trustees of Groundwork Merseyside has to announce that it is appointing insolvency practitioners from PKF (UK) LLP with immediate effect. Groundwork Merseyside employed 30 people most of whom will lose their jobs immediately.

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Festival Gardens Work to be Completed in the New Year

The multi-million pound restoration of Liverpool’s Festival Gardens will now be completed in the new year.

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November Opening Looks Doubtful

Completion of site works by the end of November followed by a period of testing on the run up to a formal opening of the gardens. The local community will be invited to visit the site within the testing period.

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Aerial Photos of Festival Gardens

Some great photos of the Festival site taken early September 2011 by Virtual Planit

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Early November Opening as Tolent replace Mayfield

Tolent Construction is to complete final work with a new anticipated completion date now set for early November.

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Mayfield Collapse Delays Park Opening til Mid September

Mayfield Construction has gone into administration with most of the staff being made redundant. Consequently the park's opening has been put back until mid-September.

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Langtree to Start Marketing Homes

"Work could start on site later this year or early next year but certainly within a year of today there will be construction here of the first residential phase,"

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Festival Gardens Opening Soon

The official line is again that "At present, we still don't have an opening date."

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Liverpool Cycle Forum Minutes

Plans for cycling in the new Festival Gardens.

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1984 Photos 7

Some of Derek Hyamson's Flickr photos of the International Garden Festival

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Garden Festival Art by John-Martin Jackson

http://byjmj.webs.com/ Please do not copy without permission. Dedicated to the Garden - 1 metre square imagineering of how oriental lake and the gardens might have looked. Festival Garden - Four separate canvasses depict the four main elements of the Chinese garden. The Cascade, the pagoda, the moonwall/gate (white in reality) and the long pavilion. Lee Park Avenue Obelisk - On the corner of Bellevale Road (the B5171) and Lee Park Avenue, across the road from Belle Vale Park. With inset of actual 'obelisk'. [imagetab width="500" …

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1984 Photos 6

Copyright Ron Smith …

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