The facts
Client: The Ascot
Authority
Location: Ascot,
Berkshire
Services: Landscape Architecture
Sector: Sports and Leisure
Project Value: £4.3m (hard and
soft landscape)
Start/Completion: 2001 - 2007
The Project
Capita Lovejoy
provided the landscape masterplan, landscape and visual
assessment and detail design for the redevelopment of the public
areas of the racecourse, which included a radical overhaul of the
design and layout of the racecourse with a new grandstand and
associated buildings.
The plans included repositioning the parade
ring closer to the grandstand, improving access to the car parks,
proposals for the heath and realigning the course’s straight mile
to improve visibility of the races.
The key focus will be to improve access
between the public areas of the racecourse, easing the movement of
up to 80,000 spectators attending the Royal Ascot. This is a
joint project between Capita Lovejoy and Michel Desvigne.