2.14 The Wellcome Trust first expressed interest in April 2001, outside the market testing process, proposing a business and science park for the Dome. After being short listed they concluded that incorporating the biomedical facilities into the Dome would not be viable and instead proposed a science park outside the Dome, subsidised by residential development and excluding any solution for the Dome itself. The Trust also attached conditions to their proposal which were not acceptable to the Government or English Partnerships. The Trust told us that they did not submit specific proposals for the Dome as they considered that they did not have sufficient information about the site, and, although they felt that the Dome could be retained, they had not been able to confirm a suitable operator and use for it within the timetable set.