Big Lottery Living Landmarks

About Living Landmarks

Living Landmarks is an exciting new UK wide programme that is aiming to get communities working together to improve their quality of life and their environment by providing funding for major capital projects.

There are two parts to Living Landmarks. The first will see us award a small number of grants of between £10 million and £25 million, and for the second, we will award a single grant of between £25 million and £50 million. The second stream is being run in partnership with the People's Millions programme and ITV, where the public will vote on which project will get the grant in 2007.

For more information, have a look at the Big Lottery Fund's website.

Chester's Bid

Chester City Council and English Heritage have a joint bid with the Living Landmarks award to create a new £25 million visitor attraction at the Amphitheatre.

This could include:

• An audio visual model showing the amphitheatre and legionary fortress through time
• An IMAX type presentation including a 350 degree virtual re-construction with the sounds and smells of the day
• Exhibitions of internationally important Roman artefacts
• Full scale replica Roman armour for visitors to use
• An area where visitors can dig, wash finds, create Roman replicas and talk to archaeologists.
• The internationally renowned Chester Roman tombstone collection
• An outdoor theatre and public events space based on the Roman arena