‘It feels like a seed has been planted’: Morecambe looks to Eden Project for revival
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<p>Young people hope green light to build eco attraction’s northern outpost will change theirs and the town’s fortunes</p><p>In the Lancashire coastal town of Morecambe, there has been talk of Eden Project’s futuristic biomes being built beside the shoreline overlooking the bay for a decade.</p><p>But this summer, spades will finally break ground to make the project a reality, with the visitor attraction expected to open in less than two years.</p> <a href=
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‘It feels like a seed has been planted’: Morecambe looks to Eden Project for revival Young people hope green light to build eco attraction’s northern outpost will change theirs and the town’s fortunes In the Lancashire coastal town of Morecambe, there has been talk of Eden Project’s futuristic biomes being built beside the shoreline overlooking the bay for a decade. But this summer, spades will finally break ground to make the project a reality, with the visitor attraction expected to open in less than two years. As plans are being finalised, and excitement is building locally, a group of young people are heading to Chelsea flower show to display the community garden they have helped design as part of the project and offer the world a first glance of Eden Project Morecambe. Designed by the award-winning landscape designer Harry Holding, the Bring Me Sunshine garden will be relocated to Morecambe to form the centrepiece of a new 1.6-acre community garden after the show. It will be a “gift” to the local area, and will sit adjacent to but outside the paid perimeter of the Eden Project and will be free for all to use. Holding said Chelsea was “an amazing opportunity for Eden Project to really promote the fact that Eden Project Morecambe is happening, but at the heart of that is to put Morecambe on the map”. The new site will have two domes – “the realm of the sun and the realm of the moon ” – the former filled with plants, and the latter a digital theatrical space. “What it’s doing is actually helping remind people about nature’s natural rhythms,” said the Eden Project’s chief executive, Andy Jasper. “And the big thing that reminds us of that is the tide that goes out here. “It goes out and reveals about 100 square miles of sand, and when it comes back in, it’s coming in so fast that it’s faster than the galloping horses.” The aim, he said, was to remind visitors that all life on Earth was governed by “the celestial beings in space”. Since it opened in Cornwall in 2001,...
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