Site History of West Park Garden Village

The factory closed in 1992 and the buildings were demolished in 1995. Bussey & Armstrong Projects employed specialist engineers to investigate the factory site and tips.

 

These extensive tests proved that the tips could be safely reclaimed by re-profiling to form a more natural landscape, whilst at the same time removing existing concrete slabs and foundations from the factory site and replacing with a new clay capping on which development could take place.

 

Planning permission was granted in 2001 for a mixed use scheme including 700 new homes, a NHS Priority Services Hospital and a new 33 acre park. Reclamation works to the former factory and tip were completed in 2002/3.