| Union Terrace Gardens + new Art Centre |
The City Square |
| Total costs: £13 million | Total costs: £140 million + |
| Cost to the taxpayer £5.2m (already committed) | Cost to the taxpayer: £70m + (still to be found) |
| Impact on gardens: limited | Impact on gardens: eradication |
| Funding gap: £3.5m | Funding gap: £90million |
| Revenue costs to city: neutral | Revenue costs to city: unknown |
| Economic benefit to city: £5m p/year | Economic benefit to city: unknown |
| Planning stage: full planning permission | Planning stage: pre-design, no application lodged |
| Number of mature trees lost: 13 | Number of mature trees lost: 78 |
| Content: café/bar, galleries, printmaking studios, film/television and dance studios, education facilities, workshops and spaces for live music, screenings and other arts events. Lifts to enable disabled access to all levels of the gardens. Public toilets and baby-changing facilites. 24-hour lighting increasing security for gardens |
Content: undecided for upper deck. 490 space car park suggested for lower deckc in ACSEF feasibility study. |
| Land rights: awaiting lease from City Council | Land rights: requires lease from city council, air rights from Network Rail. In addtion compulsory purchase orders may be required for properties on Belmont Street |
| Total building site: 3,200 m2 = 0.75 acres |
Total building site: 24,281. 1385 m2= 6 acres (bigger than the Red Square in Moscow) |
| Green Space: Gardens remain largely untouched, comprehensive replanting to replace felled trees. | Green Space: Concrete platform will not be able to support mature trees as there is no where for their root system. |
| Gardens remain largely untouched, as building site is limited to area of Art Centre. | Gardens eradicated and replaced by 3 floors of concrete construction |
| Completion date: 2012 | Completion date: Unknown |
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Union Terrace Gardens at present.
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