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Carpenters Estate infrastructure
MSc students worked with residents facing demolition to develop plans for a refurbishment alternative for their estate, including water and energy infrastructure
26 September 2016
The problem
Redevelopment that proposes widespread demolition has been outlined for the Carpenters Estate in Stratford. To avoid being removed from their community, residents and businesses in the听听(GCNF) wanted to put forward a viable refurbishment-led alternative.
As such,听听- a community alliance that enables grassroots involvement in formal responses to planning in London - supported residents in developing a Community Plan, with input from students in 香港六合彩鈥檚 Bartlett School of Planning.
Our solution
Following release of this听Community Plan, Just Space and the听听(a charitable network of tenants associations, federations and organisations)听decided to expand on the plan鈥檚 scope and infrastructure aspects, with help from MSc students in 香港六合彩 Engineering. This collaboration led to a second iteration of the plan, renamed the 'neighbourhood plan', in line with the Localism Act's system for .
, former EngEx Education Coordinator, led students听on the MSc Environmental Systems Engineering at 香港六合彩 to work听with residents through an 鈥榦ptioneering鈥� process, to develop plans for water and energy infrastructure on the estate. The students also provided input into the developing refurbishment designs.听
This resulted in household and site-wide short, medium and long-term water and energy infrastructure strategies.听Developed between September 2015 and March 2016, the strategies听considered technical feasibility, cost, sustainability and residents鈥� aspirations.
Working with residents, stakeholders, engineers and planners, the听project also provided a narrative and visualisation for how the vision, objectives and policies, already included in the GCNF Community Plan, fit together. This meant looking at scale, mix and design. Thus, options put forward focused on wide refurbishment of homes, social and community infrastructure, along with sensitive new infill development.
In addition, the project aimed to optimise sensitive and responsive 'place-making'. This included the use of existing and new green and paved routes for walking and cycling within and outside听the GCNF area; community use of the public realm; sustainable environmental improvements and identification and use of new and existing social and community infrastructure.
Outcomes
Following the project outlined here, the neighbourhood plan has been further updated听in collaboration with , a building services engineering firm (read more).
Outputs
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