Post on 22-Nov-2014
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David BarrieUrban Regeneration,
Social Design, Media
• 61 growing groups, 250 growing sites, 1000 new ‘urban farmers’, 750 playground participants, 6000 visitors to town meal, 2500 guests
• Project repeat 2008 - and larger• Adapted spatial plan for use of public
spaces in town
Alison Drake
Chair, Castleford Heritage Group
Former Primary School Teacher
Wendy Rayner
Vice-chair, Castleford Riverside Group
Former cook in old people’s home
Rheta Davison
Secretary, Custyke Community Group
Former cleaner
Lol Coxhill in a skip Concept Simon Thackray. Produced by The Shed. Photo: Tony Bartholomew
Lol Coxhill in a skip Concept Simon Thackray. Produced by The Shed. Photo: Tony Bartholomew
Impacts (since March 2003)• 10 new public realm projects created and delivered• 3 new community groups and 1 business association
formed (now in fifth years)• £100k initial seed investment by Channel 4 and £70k
grant from CABE has become £14m capital & £3m revenue programme
• Partnership of eighteen public and private organisations
• Closure of two chemical factories and release of 150ha of brownfield land for residential development
• New retail, residential and cultural development plans in place for the town, valued at over £200m
• Two projects have now delivered second phase• Planning applications now coming forward for further
waterfront development• Involvement of local, national, international designers
and artists in a former coalfield town• Involvement of over 10,000 local people in an
organic, non funding-round-locked programme of social, economic and physical renewal
• “Unofficial mayors” project team• Media: (micro) blogging, pageflakes, wiki • Good Neighbors Project• Postmen, taxi drivers, small businesses• Workshops: Construction Skills, Housing and
Healthcare policy• Development of ‘meanwhile uses’• Development of public realm on site• Resource for design development• New public management on site
“We have idols but no models to follow. You have to define your own model.”
- Nicolas Ghesquiere, Balenciaga
• Middlesbrough Council• City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council• igloo Regeneration• BioRegional Quintain• Design Council/One North East• Channel 4 Television - BBC Television• British Council - Russia & China