Thursday, June 27, 2013

Bradford's City Park Wins Top Planning Award

By Daniel Lynch  


City Park has beaten off competition from six other finalists in the Yorkshire region to win first prize in the Royal Town Planning Institute's Yorkshire Region Planning Excellence Awards.

It's the eighth award for the city centre space since the £24.5 million project was opened just over a year ago.

The award will be presented to planning officers John Eyles and Stewart Currie ar the RTPI Conference in Leeds today.

City Park is home to the UK's largest man-made city centre water feature comprising over 100 fountains and a 4,000 square metre mirror pool, as well as a recent update of free Wi-Fi internet access.

Coun Val Slater, Bradford Council's executive member for planning said: "I'm delighted City Park has won this award and that the quality of the professional work of our town planners has been recognised.


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