£4.9m funding for health hub
HEALTH hub the Olympic Legacy Park has received £4.9m of funding from the Sheffield City Region Investment Fund.
The SCRIF funding will be used to develop infrastructure as well as public spaces within the Park.
Work will start in September 2016, and is expected to be completed by March 2017. The scheme is being delivered by ARES Landscape Architects, ARUP and Turner and Townsend.
SCRIF is the Sheffield City Region’s major capital investment fund; it comprises government funding as well as contributions from local authorities and private sector partners in an effort to deliver strategic infrastructure and increase economic growth and jobs in the Sheffield City Region.
Sir Nigel Knowles, chairman of the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership, stated: “The funding from the Sheffield City Region Investment Fund will go a long way towards finalising the Olympic Legacy Park’s ambitious vision. The collaborative nature of the Park, the planning of which brought together organisations and individuals from the public and private sectors from across the region, is representative of the practical and community-based work ethic that makes the SCR such a straightforward and reliable place to do business.”
The 35-acre Olympic Legacy Park – the biggest London 2012 legacy project of its kind in Europe – is being developed in the East End of Sheffield.
The OLP is a joint venture between Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield City Council.
David Hobson, project director for the Olympic Legacy Park, said: “The funding from the Sheffield City Region Investment Fund will support the delivery of the park’s infrastructure which, in turn, will support private sector investment opportunities in new offices generating economic growth and new jobs for the Sheffield City Region.”
