MONTH IN REVIEW
£11.6bn
LANDSCAPE PROJECTS
COPPERAS
HILL CAMPUS
LANDSCAPE
PROJECT GETS
GREEN LIGHT
Liverpool City Council have
given the go ahead for Liverpool
John Moores University’s
“ambitious plans” to redevelop
Liverpool’s former Royal Mail
Sorting offices on Cooperas Hill
into a “vibrant” new student
destination.
Situated at the entrance to the
Knowledge Quarter and adjacent
to Liverpool Lime Street
Station, the project, designed
by architects Sheppard Robson,
will transform the area into a
“thriving student-focussed”
destination and “important
gateway” to Liverpool’s
Knowledge Quarter.
The scheme involves the
creation of two individual
buildings - a five-storey ‘Student
Life Building,’ offering student-
facing services, and a two-storey
indoor multi-purpose sports
facility, which are “seamlessly
connected” together by a
sweeping curved architectural
façade.
The landscape and public
realm design by Gillespies
responds to the architectural
geometry of the buildings,
creating a “distinctive and unique
identity” for this major new
development.
A statement by Gillespies
read: “A series of events spaces
have been strategically located
across the site to allow for
multiple events, performances
and exhibitions. The new areas of
public realm will reconnect this
area back into the city centre.”
MASTERPLANS
GILLESPIES SUBMITS
PLANS FOR LEICESTER
WATERSIDE PROJECT
Landscape architect Gillespies’ Hale
office has supported the submission
of the Reserved Matters planning
application for over 300 homes at
Leicester Waterside for Keepmoat
Homes, in partnership with landowner
Leicester City Council.
The scheme is one of the city mayor’s
priorities, and is “sensitively located”
on the city’s river and canal just five
minutes’ walk from the city centre.
The design includes three parks/
green spaces and a high quality shared
surface street. Gillespies’ output has
included a design code and green
infrastructure strategy.
A statement by the group read:
“Gillespies continues to support
Keepmoat in taking designs towards
Reserved Matters applications.
Working closely with the city council,
this role includes the development of
a design code and detailed landscape
design for new streets, spaces and
gardens.
“The scheme is due on site in 2019
and has the potential to be one of the
most exciting large-scale regeneration
developments in the East Midlands.”
30
That’s the
total amount
landscape
services
generated in
2017
ENVIRONMENT
LUC PRODUCES
ENVIRONMENTAL
STATEMENT FOR
STROUDWATER CANAL
REINSTATEMENT
The partners leading ‘Stroudwater
Navigation Connected’ appointed
LUC to prepare an application
for Outline Planning Permission
to reinstate a section of the
Stroudwater Canal known as the
‘Missing Mile’.
The proposed project includes
reinstatement of the canal
channel, construction of two new
locks, two new mooring basins
and associated car parks and an
accessible boating facility.
A statement by the group
read: “We produced the
environmental statement for
the planning application, which
involves identifying, assessing
and presenting all the potentially
significant environmental effects
of the proposed project. The ES
will then be used by the Local
Planning Authority, Stroud
District Council, in determining
the planning application.”
That’s the number of
employees that have
been promoted at
Landscape Architects
Barton Willmore,
including five new
directors
November 2018 | Landscape Insight
13