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Foyle River Gardens Project Mission: “To be a symbol of regeneration, transforming spaces and communities to create a sustainable world-class asset for Derry~Londonderry.”

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Where are we talking about?

Foyle River Gardens Charitable Trust Community

So, what does the Foyle River Gardens do that’s different?

Education & Skills Health & Well- Being Employment Tourism Environment Heritage, Culture & History

The Masterplan – Our Principles

The Masterplan – Our Principles

Vision Celebrate wet, wild weather

The Masterplan – The Zones

The Masterplan – Site Opportunities

Boom Hall – A Romantic Ruin

The Walled Gardens Trail – A unique network of heritage and productivity, some even older than the City Walls

The Ice House – A Subterranean Dining Experience accessed from the River

Forest Cabins – experience nature at first hand

The Canopy – Learning is fun in the iconic submerged structure concealed within the landscape

Riverside Lido and Theatre – heated by biomass, enjoyed by the many

Third Level Educational Campus open to the public

Greenhouse, Laboratory and Soil Testing Site

A Co-working community hub for eco-entrepreneurs

Innovative transport through the site

Making the River Foyle come alive

Connecting with nature through landscape trails

Bringing the Gardens into the sky

Connecting Young people through the Youth Gateway Park

Instilling drama into the landscape

Our Partners

Architectural Masterplanners

Dominic Cole Landscape Architects

Highway Engineering

Planning Consultants Environmental Consultants

Lost Gardens of Heligan City of Nantes Aardman Studios La Machine

Artistic Partners

The West Shore Retirement Village

Become a world-class destination for tourists to Derry Create Jobs and business

• pportunities for local people

Change Derry’s relationship with the River Create spaces for play and learning for all the family – whatever the age Provide world-class facilities for science, research and the study of well-being

Foyle River Gardens Legacy to the City

Some Numbers

£20m - Economic Impact 200 jobs created on site 100 volunteering opportunities

to the local community p.a.

25 apprenticeships created p.a. 200 jobs created within the local community

Bringing 400,000

350 Construction jobs

visitors a year to Derry

5km of riverside landscape 3 historic walled gardens brought into use

trail created

1,000,000 oak trees grown 225 acres of land opened up for 2 historic great houses accessible to the public

and used to reforest Ireland the benefit of the community

20,000 sq ft enhancement 1 17th century battle site enhanced 1 historic ice house restored

• f historic buildings

£60m investment cost over 1st environmental adventure park 1st sustainable off-grid energy park in Ireland

seven years in Ireland

Our ambition knows no bounds

Productivity Connectivity Creativity Economic Activity Play Activity

Our Five Core Themes

Community Benefit

Connectivity

• Re-connect positively with the River Foyle (collaboration with Our

Future Foyle, Loughs Agency, DCSDC Greenways)

• Creation of cultural hubs where communities can image a future

together

• Farm Shop will be home to artisanal craft and agricultural produce –

The best NI has to offer

• Restaurants and Bars will rely on season produce harvested from the

land, river and lough

• Events to draw the city to it by trail and river
• Workshops and studios for artists and students.

Productivity

• We will create a collection of walled gardens incorporating floating

river gardens, stepped ponds, sunken labyrinths, futuristic roof gardens, modern crannogs….

• An urban farm to bring visitors face-to-face with livestock.
• A home for research into landscape, biodiversity, horticulture,

agriculture and the cloning of the champion trees of Ireland.

• All supported by vocational qualifications and university degrees.

Play Activity

• We will create the best and largest outdoor/sheltered playground in

Ireland.

• From the covered Boom Hall stable courtyard to a network of

adventures through walled gardens, treetops and hills. Using zipwires, natural slides and climbing frames.

• A range of activities from archery to canoeing will immerse people in the

landscape and reconnect them with the water.

• A programmed calendar of events will ensure that each month there will

be a diversity of attractions across the site to encourage continuous and repeat visits to the site.

Creativity

• The Foyle River Gardens will provide a canvas for the best ideas from the

city and beyond to create new business and community opportunities

• We will use apprenticeships, training, and Further & Higher Education to

unleash the inventiveness, ingenuity and innovation of our citizens to build upon the core activities.

• We will embrace our own imagination, and take best of breed ideas

from around the world, to create inspirational attractions across the Foyle River Gardens

Economic Activity

• We will attract 400,000 visitors p.a. to the site generating £20m revenue.
• We will create 200 jobs on-site generating £3.4m p.a. through the

establishment of social enterprises

• The cost of the development of the Foyle River Gardens is £60m. This

will be spent on construction, professional fees and equipment, creating another 150 jobs incorporating buy-social model/ social clauses.

• An estimated 225 additional jobs will be created in the local economy as

a result of the success of the Foyle River Gardens .

• The total impact on the local economy is estimated at over £30m p.a.