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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"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.read more
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.January's progress photos are also available on the FestivalGardens.com read more
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.
2.1m Funding for Festival Site
THE restoration of Liverpool’s Garden Festival site can finally start following the release of £2.1m of funding for new public attractionsaccording to a Daily Post article. The funding windfall will see work done to improve the Chinese and Japanese gardens and pagodas, as well as to lakes, watercourses and woodland sculpture trails. A further £1.6m is currently being sought from the region’s European development fund, bringing the total package for the restoration of what has been described as “a blot on the Liverpool landscape” to £3.7m. City council leaders have … read more