Ebrington Barracks 2009-05-12
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This open space is now part of the Ebrington Urban Regeneration area. The Ilex Urban Regeneration Company has plans for this to become a residential area. It will be bordered to the West by a park avenue lined with trees that will run from the junction of King Street and Limavady Road across the site and into a new entrance to St Columb's Park on what is now St Columbs Road.
The two structures with balconies where the panorama opens were the first "Married Quarters" buildings provided for enlisted men and as such are historically significant military buildings. They date from the mid-nineteenth century. They are "listed" historic buildings and will be retained as part of the new residential area.
On the plans the current St Columb's Road will be subsumed into the site and in future the access from the Limavady Road to Browning Drive will be a new road that will pass between the two Married Quarters blocks.
It is also planned that the School House - the single-story building next them will also be retained.
As the panorama starts to rotate, we see Derry City across the river beyond the
. As it continues to rotate we see the rear of the
Mess, before the view sweeps along Limavady Road and back to the married quarters buildings.
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The Ebrington Barracks site consists of twenty six acres of land that was a military installation for more than 150 years. The underlying hill was used to bombard the city of Derry during the siege in the seventeenth century. The site includes an historic star-fort and almost twenty listed historic buildings. The Ilex Urban Regeneration Company is responsible for the redevelopment of the area. Ilex was set up in 2003 by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) and the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland (DSD) to plan, develop and sustain the economic, physical and social regeneration of the Derry City Council area.
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