QS in masterplanning team to redevelop Ulster site into mixed-use scheme, including football stadium

Cyril Sweett is in the team plotting a future use for the site of the former top-security Maze prison, near Lisburn in County Antrim.

The firm was part of a Mott MacDonald/EDAW-led team that published a 126-page masterplan for the future of the 360-acre Maze/Long Kesh site this week. The team was first appointed last year to work on the scheme and also includes local firms Consarc, Osborne King, Ostick & Williams and Mills Selig as well as Grant Thornton and HOK. The centrepiece is a 42,000-seat stadium which could be used, if built soon enough, for the 2012 Olympics.

The document puts the total cost for the project at £256m and adds that the project need to be completed by 2011 to be used for the Olympics.

Other elements of the masterplan include:

  • An international centre for conflict transformation
  • Office and business space
  • A rural excellence and innovation zone
  • Housing
A competition to appoint a mullti-discplinary team to work on the stadium scheme is due to be published in the OJEU shortly.

The Northern Ireland minister responsible for the porject David Hanson said the project was a fantastic opportunity. "The opportunity now exists to turn security and military assets, for so long associated with conflict, into symbols and engines of economic and social regeneration, renewal and growth."

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