THESE images show how the neglected former grounds of Worsley Hall near Walkden will be transformed into a £30 million royal garden.

The Royal Horticultural Society has released images of how it is hoped the RHS Garden Bridgewater will take shape.

It is one of the largest gardening projects in Europe currently being planned and will be the fifth RHS garden, which subject to planning permission, will open in 2019 and estimated to attract millions of visitors.

Leading landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith has been appointed to create the overall master plan for the garden.

Alongside the restoration of the Walled Kitchen Garden, highlights will also include the recreation and development of historic features such as the tree- lined garden approach and a reworking of the lost terraces.

The development will be carried out in four phases, with the first completed by 2019.

The ‘welcome building’ is designed to provide a bright and spacious entrance for the anticipated half-a-million-plus visitors per year who will enjoy panoramic views of the new garden.

As visitors approach, they will catch glimpses of the newly created lake, important for water management in the garden, from which a water garden of interlocking streams, pools and waterfalls will connect to the old lake.and large open meadow through the building.

The planning proposal allows people plenty of space to gather in front of the entrance.

The northern part of the Walled Garden will become the Paradise Garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith. Fruit and vegetables will be grown in the southern part of the garden, along with a therapeutic garden and community teaching allotments.

The old greenhouses that once helped to feed the former residents of Worsley New Hall are beyond restoration, but when funding permits they will be replaced.

The existing stables buildings are to be refurbished and will form the new visitor cafe to be opened in 2019. The two original stables structures will be linked by a glazed structure, specially designed to show the older buildings and the tress beyond — with the idea of blending historic and contemporary style.

A spokesman for the RHS said: “Following extensive consultation with the community and partners, including planning consultants, educational bodies, charities and community organisations and landscape architects, the proposed plans for RHS Garden Bridgewater, the RHS’s fifth garden at the former Worsley New Hall in Salford, have been submitted for planning permission to Salford City Council."

Celebrity gardener and former Bolton School girl Carol Klein will be an ambassador of new garden.

RHS Garden Bridgewater will be created as apart of a wider £100 million plus investment programme. The 156 acre site forms part of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater’s estate and adjoins the Bridgewater Canal.

The project is a collaboration between Peel Lane and Property, Salford City Council and the RHS.