The design required is of an innovative, architecturally striking educational, conference and seed production complex at the centre, off Junction 5 of the M62 in Knowsley.

The client for the competition is Landlife with funding of £100,000 for the competition provided by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).    

Entries are invited from architects or architect-led teams, which will be judged anonymously at the First Stage. The authors of up to six schemes will then be invited to develop their design proposals and present them to a Jury Panel at interview. Each Stage Two competitor will receive an honorarium of  £6,000.

The deadline for Stage One submissions is 7 January 2009.