Why the competition was held in secret by the city council is anyones guess.
At least the council has finally picked a winner. The same practice that was picked in 2017. Lol!
Pretty much 2 years wasted.
Manchester sticks with LDA for tricky £25m Piccadilly Gardens job
LDA has been involved with Piccadilly Gardens for the last six years. The landscape architect was behind 2017 proposals from leaseholder LGIM Real Estate to regenerate the area.
The £2m overhaul was popular with the public but wasn’t progressed due to challenges around funding.
In 2020, LDA was appointed by the city council to draw up concept designs for the regeneration of Piccadilly Gardens.
It was those concept designs that informed the brief for the competition LDA has just won.
The 10-acre project, which Manchester City Council announced two years ago, includes not just Piccadilly Gardens itself, but also Mosley Street, Parker Street, part of Portland Street and part of Piccadilly.
Bev Craig.
There’s still much more work to do and today
is not about us announcing the plan but appointing the experts who will help produce one, taking the views of Mancunians very much into account.”
Bev! You and the city council have been fucking about for 2 years, including the competition, and you still haven't got a plan/proposal to put before the people of Manchester. Great!
The design practice has beaten off competition from West8, Planit-IE, and Studio Egret West to win the opportunity to change the face of the much-maligned public space.
www.placenorthwest.co.uk
