Striking new images show the extent of work taking place at Liverpool’s Festival Gardens as hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste is moved from the site.
Photos taken by a drone show vehicles at work clearing the site ahead of proposals that would see hundreds of homes built there.
The council bought the land for £6m in 2015 and proposes to build 1,500 homes there.
Work to clear the site, which was used as a waste dump until the 60s and was later the focus for the 1984 International Garden Festival, began in February.
An update issued this month said that backfilling of areas of the site has begun.
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The council’s construction partner Vinci will continue a series of projects on the central part of the Festival Gardens site, where new homes are proposed, over the next two years.
Planning permission for remediation and infrastructure works was granted in March 2020 and will see more than 380,000 cubic metres of waste material processed, 95% of which will be recycled.
Following remediation there is a further £8.5m programme of ground infrastructure works to lay drainage, utilities, a road network and a ground gas management system.
The project is being jointly funded by Liverpool City Council, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Homes England.
Liverpool City Council is working in partnership with IMGF Developments Ltd to enter into legal agreements for disposal in the future. This will allow for the release of the land in phases for delivery of housing-led development.
It is anticipated IMGF Developments Ltd will submit a residential planning application for 1,500 eco-homes by summer 2022. It is expected that, pending planning permissions, construction of the first homes will begin in late 2023, with the development being phased over the following eight years.
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