Festival Park on Course

"Festival Park on Course" says ITV's Granada Reports. See their video here.

Developers behind one of the north west's newest parks say they're on course for it to be open to the public by this spring. The waterfront site of Liverpool's Garden Festival had lain derelict for more than 25 years but is now being back to life. Older visitors will even get to see some familiar sights, including a view of the Mersey that had previously been hidden.

“Groundwork Merseyside” to Manage Park

The Land Trust has appointed environmental charity Groundwork Merseyside as its managing agent for the garden festival site in Liverpool following a competitive tender. according to Place Northwest. Full article here

New Bridge on Festival Site

Daily Post has an article about the new bridge on the Festival Site.

WORKMEN yesterday undertook a painstaking operation to install a centrepiece bridge at Liverpool’s Garden Festival site. A year on since the restoration of the site began, civil engineers, using an 80-tonne crane, delicately manoeuvred the bridge into place.

Festival Gardens Website

The Festival Gardens website is now

Temporary Footpath Closure

UPDATE: Closure is from 14 June until 29 November 2010 The footpath from near the small roundabout at Riverside Drive/Bempton Road down to the river will temporarily be closed to pedestrians from Monday 14th June 2010 for 2 weeks so that Langtree can carry out work related to the Festival Gardens regeneration. TTRO5870.pdf RiversideDrivePlan.pdf

Festival Gardens Liverpool Echo Talks to Planit

The Liverpool Echo has been given a tour of the Festival Gardens site by design firm Planit Planit website

Festival Gardens Looking Good

Recently some attractive signs have gone up advertising the future Festival Gardens development. There has also been much progress in the depths of the site with tree clearing and making paths. If you follow the path round the edge of the site from the roundabout near Moel Famau View down to the river the view is unrecognisable from what it used to be. The above photo shouldn't be taken as typical however. There are still plenty of trees on the site. It isn't dense woodland though and many of the new paths are quite wide.

Festival Gardens Tidy Up Progress

Came across some reports on the tidy up at the fascinating 28 Days Later Urban Exploration Forum. ... January: Feb: April