Plans for the Eden Project Foyle are being reconsidered, the team behind the multimillion-pound project in Londonderry has said
Multimillion-pound plans for a Northern Irish version of the Eden Project in Londonderry are being reconsidered, the team behind the project has said.It had included plans for walled gardens, tree-top and floating walkways and a water activity centre on a 250-acre site beside the River Foyle., plans will now proceed with a "more modest and phased approach".
"Clearly the current macroeconomic context is not conducive to the feasibility or affordability of a project of this scale and ambition," Eamonn Deane of the Foyle River Gardens said. In conjunction with the Eden Project in Cornwall, FRG, a charitable trust that would have operated the Derry site, had hoped to secure investment of around £70m for the project.The plans included tree-top and floating walkways and a water activity centre and zipwires
FRG said those plans have been hampered by the global economic downturn and pressures on public expenditure.Mr Deane added: "In conjunction with our strategic partners the Eden Project, we will want to consider options, based on a more modest and phased approach but with the ultimate goal of enhancing the environmental amenity in the north-west."
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