Design Workshops

A workshop was held on the 10th March 2006 with community representatives from the local area. This was followed up with a further workshop for local residents on the 12th and 13th May 2006

Invitations were issued to over 2,500 local residents surrounding the site, who were then asked to confirm attendance by phone or email.

The response rate was good, with 124 confirmed responses.

The workshops ran over two sessions, the morning session was based on the same format used in the earlier workshops, with five separate groups discussing different themes.

Participants were asked to select two themes to discuss upon registration.

The themes where:

- Transportation, Movement & Infrastructure
- Open Space and Ecology
- Urban Design
- Community Facilities
- Integration with the Community

The afternoon session gave paticipants the opportunity to design the kind of scheme they would like to see. Groups were given a plan of the site and a series of cards which represented different densities, pens, pencils and markers. They were then given a design brief which included the existing planning constraints such as access points and features such as hedgerows, and asked to design the site that they would want to see.

To view the results and analysis of the workshops please follow the links below:

Results
Analysis