A new community hub for Warrington Borough Council, with community education facilites, a therapy pool and community cafe. A distinctive architectural design by Walker Simpson Architects is offset by a forecourt and planting scheme with a wetland garden and pollarded willows to relate to the local warterside context. The site contained some difficult issues including […]
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SMLA were appointed in 2009 to develop a master plan for the park which drew on consultation carried out by the friends of Copperas Field. Since then the group has secured funding to progress the project to achieve planning permission which was achieved in 2011.Funding for a natural play space was secured in 2013 .The […]
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Partington is a Manchester overspill estate on the edge of the Cheshire countryside. Many of the residents came from inner city Manchester in the 1950’s and 60’s with the promise of work in the adjoining petrochemical industries in Carrington –much of which closed in the 1980’s and 90’s. The area in the late 1990’s was […]
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Hillock estate is a Manchester overspill estate located in Whitefield in north Manchester between Manchester and Bury. The Project focussed on improved neighbourhood spaces in conjunction with improving practical issue such as parking problems. An environmental strategy for the estate was developed through a series of workshops with a steering group comprising residents and Housing […]
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