Neil Tague
The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership has committed £1.2m to help cover costs as a planning application is progressed for the Morecambe attraction.
The investment from the LEP will fund the next stage of design work, further developing the content of the project and conducting the environmental impact and sustainable transport work required for planning consent.
Eden aims to complete this work in time to submit a planning application in 2021, with the £125m project aiming for an opening date of 2024.
The LEP is one of four regional partners on Eden Project North, the others being Lancashire County Council, Lancaster City Council and Lancaster University.
Dec 10, 2020
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The scaffolding which had surrounded the pyramid-roofed Kiln at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings since March 2019 has been removed
A total of 7,200 slates from Penrhyn Quarry, the last major source of Welsh slate, were used to create the new pyramid-roofed kiln at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings.
The kiln, believed to be one of the largest in Europe, has been undergoing extensive internal and external repair as part of the restoration of the Flaxmill Maltings site, led by site owners, Historic England.
Inside the kiln, new steelwork for the lift shaft and walkways has been put in. The concrete vaulting around the sides – a 1960s replacement of the original brick vaults – was in very poor condition and is being replaced. There have also been lots of careful repairs to the walls with matching brickwork inside and out.