Initial Findings & Ideas Exhibitions
At four public events in late September/early October 2023, we shared the community's priorities and the design team's initial ideas in order to get local people’s feedback.
INITIAL IDEAS
Our concept
We want to create an industrious heart to Bow Goods Yard surrounded by a series of connected landscape pockets or ‘charms.’ These new spaces and uses will bring the community into the site for the first time.
We have been thinking about zoning the area to accommodate a mix of uses that reflects both our and the communities priorities. This diagram sets out some of the fixed locations and our initial thinking. Select the numbers/letters on the plan to see what the different landscape areas and zones could be like.
From all of the feedback recieved we have been able to produce a set of priorities to guide the design development where possible. Note: based on your feedback we have turned your priorities into a more concise 'Community Brief' here.
Responding to climate crisis
1. Address HGV traffic & air quality
2. Sustainable buildings & energy
3. Climate resilient & regenerative planting
4. Encourage, engage& educate community
Access and movement
5. Make the area safer for pedestrians & cyclists
6. Better links connecting the area
7. Improve existing routes: Greenway, Towpath, A12, Marshgate Lane, Wick Lane
Landscape & open space
8. Enhance connection to nature
9. Planting to improve area & air quality
10. Spaces for playfulness, leisure & activities
Employment &
industrial space
11. Retain & improve industrial uses
12. Visible workspaces that bring community and industry together
13. Different scales of work from individual to industrial
Neighbourhood
14. Variety & convenient food options for everyday use
15. Creating a cultural destination
16. Inclusive & affordable employment, homes, shops, activities
Local character & distinctiveness
17. Celebrate industrial history & heritage
18. Celebrate sense of wildness
19. Provide independent offers & uniqueness
Creativity & activation
20. Public art & art trails
21. Community gardening
22. Local markets & events
23. Community & youth spaces
