Friday 14 October 2005
Masterplanning for Communities -
a Scottish Centre for Regeneration Masterclass
Radisson SAS Hotel, Glasgow
The Scottish Centre for Regeneration is delighted to welcome Piers Gough CBE back to Scotland to lead our masterclass on Masterplanning.
Masterplanning balances both the physical and the people parts of regeneration. Rather than build estates or community facilities that fail to meet the needs of local people, Masterplanning builds those needs directly into the physical restructuring of places. Masterplanning for, and with, communities can help to ensure that physical developments can support efforts to close the opportunity gap and help to improve the quality of the local environments within neighbourhoods.
Piers is a founding partner of CZWG architects, set up in 1975 and was the masterplanner responsible for Glasgow’s award-winning Crown Street regeneration programme. It was his work in London’s Docklands, including Dundee Wharf, The Circle and China Wharf that first brought him widespread public recognition. He is also widely credited with pioneering London’s Clerkenwell area with his 1992 conversion of the Summers Street printworks in London for the Manhattan Loft Company; Brindlay Place Cafe, Birmingham and the Green Bridge in Mile End Park, east London. Piers’s current projects include being design champion for Kent council; a collaboration with Frank Gehry for a seafront development in Hove; the masterplanning of Smethwick, a canal side mixed-use development in Sandwell, near Birmingham; and masterplanning the site of a former brewery in Sunderland.
The day will also offer the opportunity to visit the Crown Street regeneration programme in the Gorbals and hear first hand from some of Scotland’s leading planners on current developments.
Who should attend?
All partners interested in current policy and practice including:
- Planning professionals
- Local authority departments
- Community planning partnerships
- Social economy organisations
- Registered social landlords
- Community and voluntary organisations
- Members of the Community Voices network and community representatives
Masterplanning for Communities, Friday 14 October 2005, Radisson SAS Hotel, Argyle Street, Glasgow
The programme and presentations from this event are still available, please email screvents@zealey.com
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