RHS GARDEN BRIDGEWATER, WELCOME TO RHS BRIDGEWATER 00

ABOVE: & GARDEN TERRACES, 1905

HISTORY IN THE MAKING

Thank you for attending the Members and local interested considered before we proceed consultation event today. This parties feel about the proposals further with our design work. consultation is an opportunity for RHS Garden Bridgewater. for you to tell us your views We are committed to keeping on our emerging proposals Members of the project team the public informed as this before a planning application are here today to talk through project progresses through the is submitted to Salford City our ideas and to answer any development process and will Council in December 2016. Our questions you may have. There feedback our responses to key aim is to understand how local are feedback forms available to comments raised. residents, businesses, RHS record your views, which will be RHS GARDEN BRIDGEWATER, WORSLEY BACKGROUND TO RHS 01

ABOVE: LOCATIONS OF RHS GARDENS

ROSEMOOR GARDEN, DEVON

LONDON FLOWER SHOW 2016

WISLEY GARDEN, SURREY HARLOW CARR, YORKSHIRE HYDE HALL, DEVON 2016

make the UK a greener and more beautiful 30,000 primary and secondary schools place”. have joined our RHS Campaign for School Gardening. We deliver this Vision through activities which • Our outreach work supports communities include: to transform lives through the power of plants CAMPAIGN FOR SCHOOL and gardening. We run the , GARDENING • Our four existing RHS Gardens, at It’s Your Neighbourhood and RHS Greening Wisley in Surrey, Rosemoor in Devon, Hyde Grey Britain national campaigns. Hall in Essex and Harlow Carr in Yorkshire, • Our Science team are world leaders in which combined receive 1.9 million visitors horticultural science, and we are expert in The RHS was founded in 1804. Our objective each year. We are also affi liated to 200 Partner plant naming and descriptions, plant pests is to be the world’s leading gardening charity, Gardens across the UK and overseas. and diseases and gardening in a changing by inspiring passion and excellence in the • Our world renowned RHS Flower Shows world. We conduct research into the benefi ts science, art and practice of horticulture. We at Chelsea, Hampton Court, Tatton Park, of gardening for health, wellbeing, ecology are funded by membership, supporters and Malvern and Cardiff. From 2017 we will deliver and the environment, and provide a gardening commercial activity and currently have more a new show at Chatsworth in Derbyshire; advice service which, in 2015, benefi ted than 465,000 members across the UK and 500,000 people attend RHS Shows each year. almost 16million people worldwide. HORTICULTURAL further afi eld. • Our education work, which provides • Our shops, plant centres, publishing QUALIFICATIONS & horticultural skills and qualifi cations through and holidays generate commercial income TRAINING We launched our Vision in autumn 2015: “To courses, traineeships and apprenticeships. which is used directly to support our charitable We currently employ 19 apprentices, and purposes. BACKGROUND IMAGE: enrich everyone’s life through plants, and RHS HARLOW CARR GARDEN, YORKSHIRE RHS GARDEN BRIDGEWATER, WORSLEY SITE LOCATION & CONTEXT 02

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1920’s WORSLEY NEW 1. 2. 3. 4. HALL ABOVE: AERIAL VIEW & SITE PHOTOGRAPHS

In 2015 the RHS announced a ten year, £160 The grandeur of the New Hall was matched meadows and woods, the whole forming a million investment programme. As part of by its gardens. These were laid out in the picture full of interest.’ this programme the RHS pledged to fi nd early 1840s and developed and enhanced and develop a site for a fi fth RHS Garden. over a period of 50 years. William Andrews Over the following years, the sloping grounds In November 2015 the RHS announced a Nesfi eld (1794-1881) was involved in the to the south of the Hall were organized vision to create the fi fth garden on the 156 development of the gardens from 1846. into a formal terraced garden. By 1857 acre site of the former Worsley New Hall, on At the time, Nesfi eld was the most sought there were six terraces in total, separated the outskirts of Salford. This has been made after landscape designer in the country. The by stone balustrades and accessed by possible through a collaboration between the Gardener’s Chronicle described the New Hall a series of steps and gravel paths. The RHS, Peel Land and Property, and Salford and its grounds in 1846: terraces featured three fountains, fed from City Council. will be known Blackleach reservoir. Beyond the formal 1908 MAP OF WORSLEY as RHS Garden Bridgewater; the historic ‘This magnifi cent residence lies about eight terraced garden was landscaped parkland NEW HALL ESTATE runs along the southern miles west of . The mansion is which extended southwards towards a lake. edge of the site. beautifully situated on a rising knoll, the An area of woodland towards the west of gentle acclivity of which the approach the Hall separated the formal gardens from Worsley New Hall was built for the 1st Earl imparts to a great degree of dignity. In the the gardener’s cottage and the eleven acre of Ellesmere between 1840 and 1845. A east may be seen the wild and lofty blue walled kitchen gardens. Queen Victoria grand, Gothic-style mansion, designed by hills of Derbyshire, whilst the fertile county of visited the Hall twice, in 1851 and 1857. After the architect Edward Blore, it was described Cheshire lies within view on the south. The the Great War of 1914-18 and the departure of the Egerton family from the Worsley Estate, in A Guide to Worsley: Historical and celebrated Chat Moss lies in this direction the Hall and the gardens fell into decline. Topographical (1870) as ‘comparable with formerly covered with impenetrable swamps, The Hall was demolished in the 1940s. In any of the mansions of the nobility in the but now bearing the impress of civilization. subsequent years parts of the grounds have north of England; it is an ornament to the Skirting the declivity of the park may be seen been used as a Garden Centre, a Scout county in which it stands.’ the famous Bridgewater Canal winding along Camp and a Rifl e Range. the vale, which is beautifully skirted by rich 1929 WORSLEY NEW HALL

BACKGROUND IMAGE: 1858 WORSLEY NEW HALL GARDEN ILLUSTRATION RHS GARDEN BRIDGEWATER, WORSLEY RHS GARDEN BRIDGEWATER PROPOSALS 03

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WALLED GARDEN AERIAL VIEW The revival of a site of this scale represents on-site gardening advice service – 2020- training and horticultural inspiration to young one of the largest gardening projects 2023. people; 65 of the 90 primary and secondary in Europe at this time. The RHS have schools in Salford have already joined the appointed world-class landscape architect, PHASE 4 - Creation of an architecturally RHS Campaign for School Gardening. Tom Stuart-Smith to deliver the masterplan stunning glass house on the site of the old • Partnerships with local GPs, hospitals for the project. Manchester-based award Hall; renovation of the terraces; renovation and social services to promote the health winning architects Hodder and Partners of the civil defence bunker for use as an and wellbeing benefi ts of gardening and have been appointed to design the new exhibition space; creation of a Northern gardens. arrivals building, and the sensitive restoration College of Horticulture – 2023 onwards. • Community gardening projects, of the existing buildings. The masterplan developed with and for local people will be developed, and opened in phases, The project team are committed to and organisations, initially near to RHS as funding permits, over at least the next delivering the following Benefi ts for the Local Bridgewater, and ultimately extending decade, resulting in the creation of a world Community: across the region to reach tens of thousands VIEW TOWARDS LAKE class horticultural visitor attraction, and • Restoration of a heritage site to create of people. These projects will provide THROUGH ARRIVALS vibrant community resource for local people. a world-class visitor destination, raising social, economic and health benefi ts, while BUILDING Salford’s profi le nationally and internationally. enhancing the local environment. PHASE 1 - Restoration of the Historic Walled Visitor numbers are expected to reach • Partnerships with local universities to Garden and Garden Centre site, Middle 600,000-700,000 by 2029. research horticultural and environmental Wood and the Lake. To include a therapeutic • Initial direct investment of £30m by science, social history, and the regenerative garden, community allotments, initial plant 2023, adding £13.8m per annum to the local benefi ts of gardening. centre and shop, and a cafe – to open in economy by 2029. summer 2019. • Creation of over 140 direct jobs in ‘The development of the RHS’ new fi fth the garden, and a further 180 in the local Garden will be the biggest hands-on PHASE 2 - Opening of a new arrivals economy, by 2029. Every effort will be made gardening project the charity will have building, including an events space, a to recruit locally. undertaken in its 211-year history. Watching learning space, offi ces, café, shop and plant • Multiple opportunities to upskill local how RHS Garden Bridgewater takes shape INNER WALLED GARDEN centre; opening of a newly created second people through volunteering, training and and grows is going to be fascinating. VIEW lake, a new arrivals garden and access to apprenticeships. Volunteers to be engaged Everyone deserves access to beautiful the meadow area – to open in summer 2020. from 2017, with at least 180 volunteers and landscapes and glorious gardens, and for BACKGROUND IMAGE: 20 trainees and apprentices to be engaged, people living in Manchester and Salford, ARRIVALS GARDEN SKETCH PHASE 3 - Creation of a bespoke Learning per year, by 2024. having an RHS Garden on your doorstep is a (H) Centre with teaching garden, an arboretum • Partnerships with local schools, real horticultural treat.’ and a further lakeside café; provision of an colleges and youth groups to provide RHS Vice President, Alan Titchmarsh MBE RHS GARDEN BRIDGEWATER, WORSLEY ARRIVALS BUILDING 04 OUTLINE PROPOSALS

ELEVATION D POLY & SHADE TUNNELS DUTCH BARN & CHEMICAL STORAGE BUILDING

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PRECEDENT IMAGES

ST CLARE’S COLLEGE, OXFORD

LIVING PLANT CENTRE, WWF-UK HEADQUARTERS ABOVE - NORTH WEST VIEW - MAIN ENTRANCE

CANARY WARF CROSSRAIL STATION, LONDON

NORWICH CATHEDRAL REFECTORY ABOVE - INTERNAL VIEW , MAIN ENTRANCE / FRONT OF HOUSE / EVENTS SPACE BELOW : WEST ELEVATION

THE SAVILL BUILDING, WINDSOR GREAT PARK RHS GARDEN BRIDGEWATER, WORSLEY ARRIVALS BUILDING 06 OUTLINE PROPOSALS

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FISHING HUT, HAMPSHIRE

THE NATIONAL WILDFLOWER CENTRE, KNOWSLEY ABOVE - SOUTH EAST VIEW FROM THE LAKE

MU XIN ART MUSEUM, JIAXING, CHINA

THE NATIONAL WILDFLOWER CENTRE, KNOWSLEY ABOVE - NORTH EAST VIEW TO CLASSROOMS BELOW : EAST ELEVATION

ST CLARE’S COLLEGE, OXFORD RHS GARDEN BRIDGEWATER, WORSLEY PROPOSED ACCESS & HIGHWAYS WORKS 07

RHS VISITOR NUMBERS PER ANNUM

56.3m Wisley, Surrey 1,000,000 (Opened 1904)

298 Rosemoor, Devon 286 294 180,000 284 290 (Opened 1990) 272 Hyde Hall, Essex 240,000 (Opened 1993) Harlow Carr, North Yorkshire 52.46 52.40 Wall LP ST 52.16 52.29 52.14 Tarmac 5252.25.25 52.31 51.98 52.28 Wall 52.03 51.93 LP 51.82 51.88 51.62 51.69 51.94 Kerb 52.10 Wall ST 51.44 51.55 51.71 51.78 51.12 LP 51.35 Tarmac 51.50 51.42 ST 51.21 380,000 50.68 51.14 51.38 Wall 50.83 50.99 50.33 50.42 LP 50.91 51.06 50.14 50.40 Tarmac 49.9049.90 49.9549.95 Pipe LP 50.54 50.45 49.91 50.42 50.67 50.19 ST 49.95 50.06 50.03 50.28 (Opened 2001) 49.39 4949.75.75 Kerb 49.51 4949.65.65 49.00 49.18 Tarmac LP 49.90 ST 49.24 49.79 CTV .13 49.27 C/P Hyd 48.74 49.01 49 49.48 48.5548.55 48.89 48.80 49.20 G 48.22 48.63 49.00 Wall LP 4848.03.03 48.38 47.66 48.16 48.07 48.23 R=∞ Tarmac 48.48 Wall 4444.97.97 TP 47.24 Wall 47.95 45.62 46.8246.82 47.10 P 400.00 44.60 45.0945.09 LP 45.23 Wall ST 46.09 Wall LP 48.01 ST Tarmac LP TP 47.41 47.82 44.35 45.89 Tarmac 47.02 LP 43.55 43.66 44.27 45.13 45.57 45.52 46.03 46.14 46.71 46.63 46.84 43.67 43.82 47.28 380.00 42.67 44.37 44.53 47.01 42.6242.62 BT 44.24 44.17 45.01 45.45 46.01 46.60 G 52.31 42.66 43.91 Kerb ST 43.35 43.64 43.78 ST BT Kerb 42.54 Kerb 44.39 360.00 51.37 Wall 42.52 Hyd Tarmac 43.33 43.25 44.05 G 45.31 CTV 52.43 42.25 .00 41.88 41.95 41.97 42.69 43.79 51.85 41.7941 Tarmac 42.55 42.82 51.55 Wall R= Wall 42.26 43.21 R=720.000 52.42 LP 42.38 ST 42.71 340.00 51.50 41.69 41.77 41.89 ST G 51.97 41.70 42.22 51.27 52.07 G 51.18 41.77 51.06 51.62 .46 CTV 51.68 ∞ 320.00 50.71 51.60

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RHS Bridgewater will be accessed at the investigating the scope for improvements at Car parking within the site will be introduced same location as the existing garden centre Junction 13 of the M60. on a phased basis over time. Initially, we are

Based upon the ORDNANCE SURVEYaccess junction on Leigh Road. The junction Whilst traffi c is always a concern, our proposing to provide around 500 car parking maps with the permission of the CONTROLLER OF HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICEwill be improved through the introduction assessments have already established that spaces with the scope to increase this to a CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVEDof traffi c signals, widened carriageways the proposals will not result in large volumes maximum of around 800 spaces if our visitor on the approaches and controlled of traffi c at the most critical times. RHS aspirations are met. The car park will include Unauthorised reproduction infringes CROWNpedestrian crossings. The access will be Gardens attract visitors at off-peak times of charging points for electric vehicles as well COPYRIGHT and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. subject to a newly landscaped entrance the day during the week and at the weekend. as parking for coaches and minibuses for with replacement hedges and improved We do not open our doors until 10am and our school parties and group visits. pedestrian access. busiest period is around midday, with almost Drawing No Rev all visitors leaving before 5pm. We are also investigating ways to improve We recognise the traffiM16023-C-003 c diffi culties faced . access for everyone, includingRHS pedestrians, BRIDGEWATER locally during theDate peak periods and,Rev in Date Our aim is to attract around 340,000 visitors cyclists and those travelling by public PEDESTRIAN ACCESS accordance with Government28.10.2016 guidance, . by Year 5 (2024) with the hope of increasing transport.SITE The accessLOCATION improvements (LOCAL will CONTEXT) our proposals willDrawn Byaddress any severeAuthorised thisScale to somewhere between 600,000-700,000 include new bus stops on Leigh Road as CYCLE ACCESS impacts resulting from ourIH plans. RHS andMH once theNTS gardens have been open 10 well as the ability to bring buses into the FIGURE 2 BACKGROUND IMAGE: their consultants, TTHC, are working closely years (2029). These are very challenging site. Our study is also examining how best to PROPOSED CAR PARK with Urban Vision (Salford City Council’s targets and would make RHS Bridgewater connect with local stations and interchanges LANDSCAPING engineering division), Transport for Greater the second most visited RHS Garden. at Walkden, Eccles and Patricroft. Manchester and Highways England to Nevertheless, the proposals will be designed ensure that the garden proposals are to cater for such levels of activity, including Investigations are also underway to robustly assessed and that they will not add any special events such as fl ower shows. determine the scope for how best to access to existing traffi c issues. This work includes the Garden from the Bridgewater Canal. RHS GARDEN BRIDGEWATER, WORSLEY NEXT STEPS 08

ABOVE: RHS WISLEY GARDEN, SURREY

THANK YOU FOR VISITING

Thank you for taking the time P: RHS Garden We would be grateful if all Following on from the consultation to visit our consultation event. Bridgewater, comments can be returned by event, the RHS and their Your views on the proposals c/o Barton Willmore, Monday 21st November 2016. The consultant team will consider are important to us, therefore, Tower 12, information from the consultation any feedback raised and further please take a moment to fi ll in a 18-22 Bridge Street, boards is available to view online develop the design proposals, comment card and post it in our Spinningfi elds, at: rhs.org.uk/bridgewater and if prior to submitting the planning comments box before leaving Manchester, you would like to fi nd out more application to Salford City Council today. Alternatively, if you would M3 3BZ about the proposals, please do not in December 2016. The application prefer, you can post or email your hesitate to get in touch with us. All is expected to be determined in comments to: E: [email protected] of the contact details can be found March 2017 with works starting on on the comments card. site shortly after.