Central
Park
This park has been here several years, but
until recently had been fenced off. Probably the idea was that it
would be in a centre of new houses and industry, but it's still in
the middle of nowhere!
The Nar Ouse Regeneration Area (NORA) is
part of a £250 million initiative to regenerate the King's Lynn
area, and especially the area of King's Lynn which had become
derelict after the closure of the a fertiliser factory known
locally as the 'Muck Works' in 1967.
The contamination area was heavily
contaminated with heavy metals and poisonous chemicals. The scale
was immense, with 10,000 truckloads of contaminated material being
sent to specialised disposal sites. To decontaminate one old tar
works, specialists had to excavate to a depth of eight
metres.
The plan was to comprise of nearly 1000
houses, a local school, football pitch, shops, a community centre
and moving the College of West Anglia on to the site.
Only the school and a few house have been
built and the housing collapse of 2008 seems to have halted any
further development.