Post by Howie on Sept 2, 2004 7:08:38 GMT -5
Parkland plan for festival site
Sep 2 2004
Daily Post
ONE of the region's biggest housing developers is to transform Liverpool's Garden Festival site.
The David McLean Group has gone into partnership with new owners, Haydock-based Langtree.
The two firms have formed a joint venture company, Langtree McLean Ltd.
It is believed the developers will convert a large section of the 125-acre site to parkland while also building a residential and leisure scheme.
Some of the original features of the festival site will be restored.
Last week property company PlaneStation, formerly Wiggins, said it had received a £1.5m payment for the site from Langtree. Further payments are expected.
David McLean has previously redeveloped Liverpool's Princes Dock and City Quay.
Managing director Frank Reil said: "This is great news for Liverpool. Langtree McLean Ltd has every ambition to deliver key elements of our future proposals in time for the Capital of Culture celebrations.
"Although it is too early to talk in specific detail about the nature of future development, we are keen to preserve the majority of the land for a parkland scheme.
"It is also possible that some restoration work may be carried out on parts of the former gardens."
The garden festival site, a reclaimed landfill site in Otterspool, originally covered 250 acres and had been home to a petrochemical processing plant before World War II.
Around 3.5m visitors flocked to the site in 1983 to see the festival dome, Chinese and Japanese gardens and themed sculptures like the Blue Peter ship.
Source: Daily Post
Sep 2 2004
Daily Post
ONE of the region's biggest housing developers is to transform Liverpool's Garden Festival site.
The David McLean Group has gone into partnership with new owners, Haydock-based Langtree.
The two firms have formed a joint venture company, Langtree McLean Ltd.
It is believed the developers will convert a large section of the 125-acre site to parkland while also building a residential and leisure scheme.
Some of the original features of the festival site will be restored.
Last week property company PlaneStation, formerly Wiggins, said it had received a £1.5m payment for the site from Langtree. Further payments are expected.
David McLean has previously redeveloped Liverpool's Princes Dock and City Quay.
Managing director Frank Reil said: "This is great news for Liverpool. Langtree McLean Ltd has every ambition to deliver key elements of our future proposals in time for the Capital of Culture celebrations.
"Although it is too early to talk in specific detail about the nature of future development, we are keen to preserve the majority of the land for a parkland scheme.
"It is also possible that some restoration work may be carried out on parts of the former gardens."
The garden festival site, a reclaimed landfill site in Otterspool, originally covered 250 acres and had been home to a petrochemical processing plant before World War II.
Around 3.5m visitors flocked to the site in 1983 to see the festival dome, Chinese and Japanese gardens and themed sculptures like the Blue Peter ship.
Source: Daily Post
