January 23, 2025
Nottingham’s fantastic Green Heart has today (23 January) been shortlisted for a national award.
It will compete against four other cities in the Public Spaces category of the Pineapple Awards 2025, which are run by The Developer magazine.
The submission was put together and submitted by Townshend Landscape Architects who worked closely with Nottingham City Council on the bold development to create more green space on the site of the former Broad Marsh shopping centre.
The Green Heart, which officially opened at the beginning of September, sits where once stood three lanes of busy traffic and the part-demolished shopping centre. It has a marsh, ‘rain garden’ to collect water during heavy rainfall, more than 30 new trees, footpaths and an assortment of benches and natural rock spaces to sit.
Pathways created from sandstone wind their way around the site, with the main walkway serving as a clear and direct route connecting the train station to the bus station and city centre.
It is up against the following areas in the Public Spaces category:
- Eden Dock: London Borough of Tower Hamlets for Canary Wharf Group with Howells, HTA Design and Greengage
- Barclays Beco Dragonfly Plot 4: Glasgow for Drum Property with Stallan-Brand, Turner & Townsend, BDP, AECOM, Arup and TUV SUD
- Bradford’s Top of Town Public Realm: Bradford for City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council with Turner & Townsend, Eric Wright Civil Engineering, Gavin Jones Ltd, Social Communication Group, Public Sector Access Limited, National Lottery Heritage Fund, European Regional Development Fund Environmental Policy Consulting Ltd
- Market Street: Oxford for Oxford City Council with Urban Movement and Civic Engineers
The Green Heart was made possible by funding through the Department for Transport’s Transforming Cities fund, a £161million grant given to Nottingham and Derby in 2020 to keep the cities moving and improve connections between the two.
More about the awards can be found here, and the winner will be announced in early April.