MAKE-ROOM TOM EBDON ARCHITECTS architects-designers-makers-thinkers

Improvements MAKE-ROOM

A new arts organisation based in Tottenham

Megan Beck • Local resident • Fine Art background • Arts tutor at the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London

Jenni Grove • Fine Art background • MA in Curation and Arts Management Tom Ebdon Architects

A new architecture practice with an emphasis on designing through making

Tom Ebdon • Local resident • Ten years’ experience in both the public and private sectors • Architecture tutor in HE MAKE-ROOM TOM EBDON ARCHITECTS architects-designers-makers-thinkers

Improvements

£50K funding from the High Street Innovation Fund West Green Road Improvement Group

• A strong group • Drive forward changes Community Other • Dialogue with local people Stakeholders Stakeholders • Respond to local need • Apply for Grant funding

West Green Road Improvement Group

Point of contact for Distribute information stakeholders

Liaise with Council Oversee projects

Fund-Raising Reduce Street Clutter

• Vital to improve the public realm of West Green Road • Council street teams to review, rationalise and reduce street clutter • Consult with traders to reduce temporary clutter on the road • Review street furniture, pavements, waste collection & temporary items Menu of ideas 01 Information 02 Shop Fronts 03 Feature Signage 04 Lighting 05 Bridge Improvements 06 Art and Culture 07 Urban Parks 08 Railway Market 09 Bike Shelters & Workshop 10 Launch Event 01 Information

• Readily available information is critical to the success of an improvement scheme

• Different levels of information need to be shared with and collected from local stakeholders

• This information might include details of meetings, funding opportunities, street initiatives, event organising etc 01 Information

• Window vinyls • Billboard Cost Range • Indoor information boards • Outdoor information boards £900 - £9,000 • Post box for suggestions • Quarterly newsletter 02 Shop Fronts

• Create a strong team to manage improvements • Maintain a site-specific and flexible approach • Focus on key sites along the road • Match funding from landlords and shop owners • Shop / artist teams Lawrence Road Lawrence Portland Road Houghton Road Grove Park Road Grove Beaconsfield Road Westerfield Road Westerfield Lomond Close Kirkton Road Suffield Road Suffield Brunswick Road Corner Premises and/or Willing Premises

• Focus on 5-10 key corner premises or willing premises Cost Range for maximum street presence • Basic fixing, tidy and re-painting of windows, signboards £12,500 - and/or awnings £25,000 • Shops paired with artists to regenerate window displays • Landlord match funding: substantial repairs to pilasters, windows and brick work above, shop windows, signboards and/or awnings Suffield Road

Westerfield Road Leyton HighRoad, JanKatteinArchitects • • • Exemplar Terrace Landlord matchfunding Shop frontage &uppers improvement Focus ononesectionoftheroad foradramatic £37,500 + (5 premises) Cost

Brunswick Road

Lomond Close

Kirkton Road 03 Feature Signage

• Either end of this section of West Green Road Cost Range • Help to engender identity • Locate a significant destination £5,000 - £8,000 03 Feature Signage

Cost £3,500 03 Feature Signage

• Painted gable end signs - a contemporary approach Cost • Created for existing key businesses along West Green Road • Help to engender ownership for local traders £2,500 • Provide advertising for businesses p/sign

Shop Local, Hackney, Bob and Roberta Smith 04 Lighting

• Signify the entrance to West Green Road • Help to improve safety Cost • A fun intervention • Feasibility of lighting scheme depends upon existing £TBC infrastructure 05 Bridge Improvements

• Two new lamp columns being installed either side of bridge Cost • Additional site-specific lighting could be prohibitively expensive £5,000 - Other ideas include: £10,000 • Jet washing the brickwork • Art billboard (to be discussed in the Public Art section) • Paint scheme for the brickwork under the bridge 06 Art and Culture

• Cultural plaques for West Green Road Cost Range • A celebratory scheme for those who live and work here now, as well as highlighting historical people and events £8,000 - • Plaques become part of a cultural trail £12,000 • A unique plaque designed for West Green Road (for 10 plaques)

From left: English Heritage Blue Plaque; Stik, artist; Peer Plaques, Burnley 2008 06 Art and Culture

• Designated Art billboard for West Green Road Cost • Curated quarterly to deliver four large scale art installations on the street each year £6,200 • Managed through invited commissions from artists and (for 1 year) designers alongside open call • An ongoing programme of billboard commissions could be funded through specific art focussed project funding such as Arts Council England Grants for the Arts

From left: Ben Long, Elizabeth Rowe, Robert Montgomery 06 Art and Culture

• Commissioned art work for shutters Cost • Bringing public art to the street scene • Help to create a continuous identity along West Green Road £10,000 • Participating shop owners paired with artists / students (10 shutters) • Shutter artworks carried out by professional painters

Eine, artist 07 Urban Parks

• Addressing a lack of green on West Green Road • Creating a place to pause and relax Cost • Creating new destinations along West Green Road • Additional funding available through the Mayor of London’s £20k - £40k Pocket Park and Street Trees schemes

ADDITIONAL FUNDING AVAILABLE! 07 Urban Parks

• A new Pocket Park in the derelict railway land Cost • Creating a place to pause and relax • Redundant patch of land brought back into the public realm £39,500 • Potential for this to be phase 1 of a more ambitious market (50% funded) project

Eastern Curve Gardens Dalston, muf architecture/art and J&L Gibbons 07 Urban Parks

• Street Trees for Houghton Road Cost • Creating an urban orchard • Additional funding is available from the Mayor’s Street Trees £21,500 scheme (£4k funded) 07 Urban Parks

• Greening the street Cost • Low cost, green interventions along West Green Road • Projects could be run by the West Green Road Improvement £5,000 Group (+ funding) • Partnerships sought with local schools and colleges to design and implement planting strategies 08 Railway Market

• Introduce a low impact market to the railway park Cost Range • Creating a vibrant new destination for the area • Range of options from temporary stalls to permanent, £13,000 - architecturally designed covered market £37,500 • Potential to extend southwards into the existing railway arches and associated land 09 Bike Shelters and Workshop

• Encourage the use of sustainable transport methods, especially the bicycle Cost • Architectural competition for the design of secure, low cost and innovative bike storage facilities £9,500 • Combined with a bicycle repair workshop, to provide repairs, run workshops on bicycle maintenance and safety and encourage cycling in and around West Green Road • Good design should be used to encourage and engender a sense of ownership of the public realm

Bermondsey Square Bicycle Station, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects 10 Launch Event

• A street party to launch the new Cost initiatives and spread the word about the changes taking place on £4,000 West Green Road (+ £2k grant) • With help from volunteers, students from the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London, local businesses, residents and professional makers and designers • The West Green Road launch event could take place on the 4th of July to link in with International Independent’s Day Thanks! We look forward to hearing your thoughts

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