Chimney Pot Park

The Manchester and Liverpool workshops visited Chimney Pot Park in Salford on Friday October 29.

Chimney Pot Park is a residential neighbourhood of redeveloped terrace houses. The architects, Shedkm, redesigned the houses to that the “terrace house was turned upside down” with bathroom and bedrooms on the ground floor and the kitchen and living rooms on the top floor.

After a walk around the site with the architects, we gathered comments from people. Here’s some of the response:

* most didn’t like the way the chimneys had been remodelled.
* most liked the general redevelopment, but felt the area around Chimney Pot Park
also needed to change.
* Having the carparks underneath the garden area meant the streets were less clogged up and there was a good use of space.
* The connecting back gardens create a sense of community, but also lack privacy.

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A4E in the northwest

In Liverpool and Manchester we’ve been working away since February. We’re now 6 sessions in and there’s been some great work. The 27 participants from the two cities have been on tours of Liverpool 1 with the master planners, done Parkour in Manchester, designed schemes to improve their cities over a design weekend… and now there’s just the final exhibition next week left! Looking forward to showing the ideas to local architects and city council reps. Have a quick look at a few of our photos below…