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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. 

Produced by URBED, the 'Retrofit Fact-file' is a short summary of facts and publications relevant to retrofit – the upgrading of existing homes to new energy efficient standards – released on Tuesday 13th September 2016 to coincide with Community Energy Fortnight.

With the first phase of housing in our Trent Basin masterplan nearing completion we visited site recently to have a closer look inside the different house types, helping us to complete the home user guides we're producing. Each unit has great views either of the windmill to the north, across the city to the west and over the River Trent to the south.

Next Monday, 12 September, David and Nick will be in Oxford for the Historic Towns Forum's event "Growing Historic Cities: A Symposium".

The Symposium is promoted by Historic Towns Forum, URBED and Oxford City Council together with the city of Grenoble. 

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It's your final chance to visit the Allotment of the Future in St Ann's Square today. It's been a fantastic week full of plants, interesting science, DIY mushrooms, algae, insects and loads of activities. We'll be sad to see the allotment taken down (it's wonderful to see some greenery in Manchester city centre), but happy knowing that the various modules will continue to be used by our partners in educational work.

One of our longstanding projects, West Bar Sheffield, was submitted for planning earlier this month following our work alongside 5plus architects refreshing the masterplan and carrying out further consultation. The following visuals show what the masterplan could look like once built out (images by Alan Marten Design).