Urbanism
Environment
Design

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URBED were excited to be involved in Mayfield Imaginarium: a weekend of workshops and events to get the public thinking creatively about how Manchester’s Mayfield railway depot site should be redeveloped. The site is adjacent to Piccadilly Train Station and is being developed by London based U+I with The Mayfield Partnership (Manchester council, landowners London and Continental Railways and Transport for Greater Manchester).

Our recently published Retrofit Factfile features on the Co-operative News website, highlighting the role that community energy (and co-operative models) can play in the successful roll out of energy efficiency schemes. 

A write up of the Allotment of the Future features in the October edition of Now Then Manchester.

Back in May our Nick wrote an article for ICE (Institute of Civil Engineers) debating possible solutions to our global urbanisation challenges, and how 'Metro Cities' could be explored rather than the expansion of megacities.

The full article can be viewed and dowloanded here.  

Our client Squash Nutrition have been shortlisted in the M&S Energy Fund Competition to help them win and install a 16kWhp solar panel system on their lovely south-south-west facing roof.

They need our votes in order to win this funding! The solar panels will mean clean, green and free energy for the building and also offer the potential for the community-led hub to generate income to help sustain their activities and projects.

Published on the European City of Science website, we explain the design principles behind the Allotment of the Future, a week long urban growing installation in St Ann's Square back in July. To access the article click on the link to the right.