Henry Cort Millennium Project
The Streetscape
The paving materials used in West Street
and Millennium Square are high quality natural materials,
intended to provide a rich palette of stone as a suitable
backdrop to the sculptures, street furniture and new tree
planting.
The pavings closest to the shopfronts and within Millennium Square are machine cut York stone from the Crosland Hill quarries near Huddersfield. A total of 4800 square metres have been used on this project.
The centre roadway uses Greenmoor nature stone setts which have been tumbled to add texture to the finish. About 1700 square metres have been used.
Feature bands run between the roadway and footpath areas paved with Greenmoor natural stone setts with a flame textured rustic finish with red brick detail. The same stone is used in the Performance Podium but specially cut to fit the radial pattern. The total area of this stone is about 1000 square metres.
Within these
feature bands is the street furniture, including:
- seats and benches
- bollards which contain water or electrical supplies
- specially designed waste bins
- fencing opposite Quay Street
- cycle racks
- flower baskets
All these were designed and constructed by Charles Normandale.
Specially designed street lighting has been commissioned. They have been produced by Urbis and include a top reflector, brackets for banners and supports for 10 very large hanging flower baskets.
11 trees have been imported from Germany. These are Quercus palustris (Pin Oaks) together with one Paulownia. They have been planted in specially constructed 1.8 metre diameter planting pits.
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