On 6th and 7th February 2018 a Community Think Tank event on Community Led Housing will be taking place at Trafford Hall, near Chester.
The event will be chaired by URBED's Marianne Heaslip, who has been involved in community led housing as both a professional and a resident - including the Homebaked and Granby Four Streets Community Land Trusts in Liverpool.
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Toxteth Food Central nears completion
As Squash Nutrition celebrate their 10th birthday, Toxteth Food Central nears completion on Windsor Street. As part of their birthday celebrations the building was opened up to the public for a very well attended Winter Get-Together.
Squash Nutrition will be moving in to the office space of Toxteth Food Central in mid-December, with completion of the building scheduled for soon after.
In an article in BD online, David Rudlin writes about Gillette Square in Dalston, a public space that a couple of years ago had been shortlisted for one of the Academy of Urbanism's Awards. An excerpt from the article is below, and subscribers to BD can access the full article via the link on the right.
In the latest edition of Here & Now, the Academy of Urbanism's journal, Dr Nicholas Falk of the URBED Trust has two features. Follow the link on the right to read the journal.
We would like to wish Hannah Pether all the best on her nomination for the RIBA Sliver Medal 2017. Hannah was part of the Arrival City Studio led by John at Sheffield School of Architecture and built on URBEDs involvement with the ASRM 2015.
We do get up to some intriguing stuff here at URBED. Back in September of 2016 David Rudlin attended The International Spatial Development Forum in Saint Petersburg. During his time at the forum he and a number of other participants were inspired to write a manifesto (when in Rome and all that). The manifesto has now been published in the Journal of Biourbansim and is reproduced here for your enjoyment:
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Young Planners Conference
Friday 3rd November, 2017
This year the RTPI Young Planners conference is being hosted and organised by the North West Young Planners which includes our very own Sangeetha Banner on the organising committee. Spread over two days and with a base at the Museum of Science and Industry, the conference is exploring 'Healthy, Happy Places and People: Planning for Well-being'.
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Community Energy Awards
Friday 3rd November, 2017
My Home Energy Planner, an URBED project in collaboration with Carbon Coop, was 'Highly Commended' at the Community Energy Awards on Wednesday night at City Hall in London.
Carbon Co-op and URBED developed My Home Energy Planner as a simple, replicable service that enables householders to plan and make retrofit decisions about their home. Driven by a modular, open source tool it is being replicated by other community energy groups. This tool is financially sustainable, replicable and proven to be effective.
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User Workshop
Following further design development of the LGBT+ Centre proposal, URBED and the Proud Trust recently organised a workshop with one of the user groups to discuss the updated design. Users were encouraged to discuss the revised plans and elevations, annotating and sticking emojis on the drawings and potential cladding samples in the process.
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