VIDEO: Festival on peninsula offers vision of future

5:20pm Saturday 28th June 2008

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VISITORS to Greenwich Peninsula this weekend can enjoy a series of talks and guided tours as part of the London Festival of Architecture.

The talks by architects involved in the £5bn redevelopment of the peninsula will give people a chance to find out what the area will look like in the future.

Greenwich Peninsula is one of five sites around the capital hosting the London Festival of Architecture over the next few weeks.

The other four sites are Clerkenwell, Canary Wharf, Kensington and Bloomsbury.

The festival will run in Greenwich for two days -June 28 and 29.

It is aimed at giving people a chance to find out more about how the space around them being shaped by architects, planners and designers.

The proposed development of the 190 acre peninsula site over the next 15 years, includes 10,000 new homes, the creation of a new business district, 150 shops and restaurants, and 48 acres of green space dedicated to community leisure facilities.

As well as talks and guided walks by architects involved in the regeneration of the Greenwich Peninsula, there are a series of public art installations located around the site.

The installations are part of a multi-stranded strategy for public art on the Peninsula - included individual art projects and community and school education programmes - funded by The Arts Council, Greenwich council and English Partnership - the government's regeneration agency.

The co-director of Art in the Public Realm Greenwich Peninsula, Bridget Sawyers said: "We want to encourage people to come along and take a fresh look for themselves at this exceptional part of London."

She added: "It is really exciting that a regeneration scheme of the scale of Greenwich Peninsula is being featured in the London Festival of Architecture.

"Through the Art on Greenwich Peninsula programme we have put together a festival programme that will appeal to all ages."

For further information visit LFA2008.org or artongreenwichpeninsula.com