“These projects will help to revitalise and regenerate the town centre and surrounding areas.
#Illuminations video full
Investment in Royal Terrace Gardens will include improving the illuminations along the sea front with more creative lighting year-round.Ī statement from Torbay Council said: “Enabling and development works will begin at Upton Park, Princess Gardens and Royal Terrace Gardens ahead of the full works starting as the £750,000 first phase of Town Investment Plan gets underway. You can stay up to date on the top news near you with DevonLive's FREE newsletters – enter your email address at the top of the page or sign up to our newsletters here The project is part of the first phase of the Town Investment Plan, which attracted total regeneration funding of £22million for a series of projects from the Government’s Town Deal scheme. So you will start to see work starting soon." "Hopefully the Council will add the rest of the Bay to this system to give the whole of Torbay an amazing new concept in external illumination (fingers crossed!).
"This will replace the old, broken festoon lighting system, with the latest RGBW (Red, Green, Blue, White) individually controlled package. The high-tech lights will replace the old, broken festoons along Princess Gardens.įuture Technical Solutions shared the video on their Facebook page: "It's been a long old slog, but we are excited to announce that after considerable discussions, Torbay Council have decided to opt for our digital festoon solution for Phase 1 around Princess Gardens and Princess Pier. The company behind the new Torquay seafront illuminations has produced a video to illustrate how the flashing coloured light display will look.