Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre What You Have Told Us So Far The Site Characteristics Constraints and Opportunities for the Site What We Would Like To Do Getting The Community Involved

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Duddon Estuary Ramsar, Morecambe Bay Ramsar & North Walney National Nature Reserve Average Cloudy, sunny, and Maximum Green Spaces temperatures and precipitation days temperatures 42m The aim of this project is to deliver access to A starting point to the A large number of green spaces in Barrow precipitation The Furness Peninsula boasts a protected are playing fields. The scale and functional Nature Reserve. purpose of playing fields and the high level outdoor activities and skills development through of maintenance involved in supporting their coastline, four designated Sites of Special 156m use mean that they contribute a strong 242m an Outdoor Centre at Earnse Bay, on Walney Scientific Interest, sand dunes and beaches and sense of openness with either a tranquil or 200m active character when used. They

Page | 58 an array of wildlife of national and international do however have a low value in terms of Duddon Estuary SSSI & South Walney and Piel Channel Flats SSSI 33,333m² Precipitation Wind speed Wind rose Island. biodiversity with the exception of those sites amounts significance. Access to the beach via sharing a boundary with another Green the slip. Infrastructure asset or open countryside. To form the landscapes, we could collect 145m You could set up a community garden, like at Ford Park rubbish and put them into gabions. 42m in Ulverston (left), or Grow West in Aspatria (above). Barrow was ranked top in the RSA Heritage Green spaces have an important role in This will lead into the following outcomes: the development of new sites. The location 145m Natural England already organise litter picks Food grown on your site could be sold in local cafés for open amenity space can be provided to North Walney Nature Reserve - perhaps Index for natural assets per head of population. The site is the size of about seven average sized football pitches. Wind comes from the south west; and has sunlight all day long. More than half of the boundary of the site is bounded by homes. The site is about 200m from the sea. View 08 The only view of the sea from the site is from the western edge, overlooking an expanse of tarmac in the underused car park; the entrance to West Shore Park; and the road to the viewing point (Growing Well in Kendal sells its produce to restaurants), in viable and focal locations where it will and bus turning they could give us their rubbish? THE SITE Page | 55 or distributed among local families. be most used and best contribute to the Appendix 1 – Maps showing designated sites identity and setting of developments. Morecambe Bay and Duddon Estuary pSPA We could leave gabions at schools and • Families in the community will have improved Anyone, young or old, could get involved; and its a great The borough is a wildlife haven. South Walney ask local school children to fill them with Coastal path to way to look after mental health. It is vital in designing new Green Spaces Walney North Nature Reserve 16 rubbish. When full, we could come and Nature Reserve is home to grey seals, Europe’s that they are designed to prevent negative accessibility to services collect the gabions and build walls one southernmost colony of breeding Eider Duck, consequences arising from open space as block at a time. much as they are about maintaining or creating positive landscapes. This way, children can begin to get an while its colonies of Herring and Black-back Gull A point on the coastal walk for a break. understanding of how much waster we Page | 57 • People will have improved accessibility are of national importance. Schools Consultations Duddon Estuary SPA & Morecambe Bay SPA create. Many local school pupils have provided amazing drawings, paintings, and videos. to green and open spaces and the Walney is also the only place in the world Some have given a presentation that explains many of their ideas. Going forward, wider natural environment where you will find the flowering Geranium for the rest of the design process, we propose to have a focus group of pupils The north and the west edges have wild bramble borders. View 09 Plants have established themselves, and new plants are succeeding them. There are lots of birds, and flowers. Boggy patches after heavy rainfall. We saw fox cubs! Create a new public space on the sea front sanguineum var. striatum - otherwise known as that will continue to input their ideas and discuss ours. We also hope that they will the Walney Geranium. contribute to the community projects we are proposing, as well as developing their own contributions. 14 This house (above) in New Zealand was Aerial of Furness Peninsula showing the site; inset diagrams showing Special Protection Areas, Ramsars, and Sites of Special Scientific Interest 09 made using rammed earth. It might be Community Resilience Hubs • Art garden At this project in Auckland, New Zealand, possible to use the red sandstone on Community Resilience Hubs are being • Urban farm West Shore Park Retirement Park the playground was on a steep site and Walney, which is high in clay content, to developed to be at the heart of our • Facilities for disabled / accessible 15 needed levelling off; so the soil for the make parts of the community building . playground was stabilised using car tyres communities where families of all ages tracks outside for wheelchairs / 11 Slip to access beach from the car garage next door. The owners of the house had ‘rammed throughout their whole life can access accessibility to the beach earth parties’ - they would invite friends, support in a way that works for them. • Camping facilities / camping pods To create the slopes over the community neighbours, school children, and anybody / overnight camping-help with building, we could use ‘earth ship’ they could, round to help them make the We want our hubs to be an open, accessible awards e.g. Duke of Edinburgh technology. rammed earth walls. Now they have taught others to build their own rammed earth and friendly space that is developed with • Flexible spaces / multi-functional The whole site is bounded by inhospitable fencing. View 10 View across fencing and site to West Shore Park. View 11 A gate connects to West Shore Park to the north. Some photos of access paths to beach fronts. There are already situations like this on Walney. This is Riley’s Fish Shack in Tynemouth. It is very popular, in all weathers. Maybe a permanent home for the Kite Surfing Club Local garages and scrap yards could donate walls for use in their gardens, at businesses, our residents in mind through listening and building for community use / their old tyres to us so that we can stack and so on. responding to their needs where they live. hire, storage, open space Bus Stop them, and fill them with soil. 12 08 We will have different agencies and partners • Strong WIFI connection including The site was used as a series An opportunity to link the site with the sea in the hubs to provide support and activities for outdoor spaces of playing fields with ideas such as but not limited to: • Kitchen space to support

families with healthy eating The UK needs millions more trees to reach • Residents are supported and get • Bike stands lots, storage, and maintenance Barrow Borough Council Parking its 2050 carbon net-zero target. And we access to basic needs/supplies centre / bike loan / hire service Cows Tarn Lane want to plant lots of new trees at our site. • Places where friends and families can • Stations for measuring pollution Charities such as The Woodland Trust come together and support each other • Outside shelter for school parties donate trees to schools and community 06 The old changing rooms • Growing and cooking food activities • Safe place for BBQs groups, and teach them how to plant them • Well-being and exercise activities • Seagull proof litter bins / proper 02 successfully. Maybe we could get them to Coastal path to • Free WIFI and use of computers to enable bin facilities - for recycling too 13 come along and teach volunteers how to Walney South Nature Reserve etc. homework clubs, skills development, CV • Shower rooms / facilities / lockers / There are existing buildings and facilities on the site and adjacent View 12 Existing WC block in car park. View 13 Existing changing rooms no longer in use. plant new trees? to it. These could be refurbished, remodelled and reused. writing and employment opportunities toilets / changing Rooms - changing 04 Maybe school children could have a go at These pictures show a recycling centre NORTH • Access both physical and places for people with all abilities 10 planting their own seeds now and looking Kamikatsu, in Japan. The town of Kamikatsu WALNEY virtual meeting facilities • Bird watching facilities WestWest Shore Shore Road Road 05 after them until it is time to plant them has set itself a target of becoming a ‘zero- 01 Solway Drive NATURE • Wildlife trails-signs with key information RESERVE outside? waste’ town. Currently residents of the town Furness Golf Club collect and sort all their waste here, wash Key feedback points to date from the in the field and along the beach it, and send it for recycling or re-use. The

S c a r th Map A: Key Map - Ch North • Water quality - if caravans were an consultations for Earnse Bay: n el End Haws SITE Chapter number and title town recycles 80% of their waste, and this is 1 Jubilee Bridge to Sandy Gap (Maps 1a to 1e) 1600m 2 Sandy Gap to Jubilee Bridge (Maps 2a to 2g) A590 • Flexible spaces in the building that coming we would need to think 03 Newton cheaper than installing an incinerator. 1 (1 MILE) Dendron 07 BARROW-IN- FURNESS Bus Stop North Walney could be used as classrooms, activity about waste water facility North Scale Leece Roosecote Vickerstown 3 Jubilee Sandy Gap Bridge A5087 Roosebeck A5087

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l n We could convert the existing changing e y rooms, meeting areas training areas • Accessibility to the shore C h a n n e SOUTH l Rampside 1 WALNEY Biggar ISLAND Long rooms into a waste sorting house. We could Rein Piel Channel Point • Whole family access from • Strategic noise modelling- reduce WALNEY 2 2 Roa Island

IRISH Snab SEA Point separate waste for putting into the gabions. Piel Island toddlers to grandparents noise for residential park (hedges) NATURE Foulney Island South End Haws Point 12 RESERVE 7 • Affordable family camping • Outdoor trampolines Extent of proposals in 1 each chapter Or maybe the recyclable waste could be Extent of proposals

N 0 1 2 3 Kms A road B road 0 1 2 Miles Based upon Ordnance Survey material on behalf of HMSO. Minor road © Crown copyright and database right 2016. All rights reserved. • Sports/activities e.g. informal sports • Boat they can use Natural England OS licence number 100022021 Railway & station sorted and sold to recycling companies, and 10 games with equipment e.g. skipping • Interactive whiteboards create a few jobs along the way. Earnse Bay is the gateway to the North Walney Nature Reserve; View 16 The path to North Walney Nature Reserve has become The reward is spectacular - views of the Lake District Fells over Roanhead and the Duddon 5 ropes, low fitness activities, access • Quiet spaces for reflection / spaces and sits on the Coastal Path. damaged. Estuary. 8 11 Geodesic domes are lightweight structures to outdoor gym equipment for children with eco-anxiety 6 that are very strong. They are also relatively • Access to beach including water • Allotments / gardening spaces 4 Key cheap and easy to build and maintain. sports e.g. kite surfing, windsurfing • Hydroponics Aeroponics To grow plants for longer during the year, • Education facility including beach • Green Gym View 01 View of the existing changing rooms from the south east View 02 The proximity of the existing changing rooms to West Shore Park View 03 Looking north east across West Shore Road 9 1. New Community Site greenhouses will be needed. Geodesic schools looking at marine life, • Park play 2. New Community Building domes make fantastic greenhouses. environment, nature, woodland Walks • Beach school / Classrooms 3. Refurbished Changing Rooms • Green facilities e.g. tree planting around • Sustainable eco building With a few lessons, we could build our own 7 4. Refurbished WCs the perimeter, community garden • Cafe / Refreshments facilities - pop greenhouses and locate them around the Image courtesy of Woodmatters • Walking route around the up vans - little blue pig (cakes and 5. Pedestrianised Route to Sea Front site. Imagine growing your own den. Or your perimeter of the site coffees), caravan that does home-made 6. New Sea Front Location own outside story-telling room. Or maybe a pizzas - set times / mobile food bar 7. Access to Coastal Walk living tree tunnel! Ideas you have suggested for your • ICT plug in points 8. Access to Beach via Slip facilities: • Projection set up There are may examples of living willow View 04 View down Cows Tarn Lane from the intersection with Solway Drive View 05 Looking over the site from the south west View 06 Looking across the site from the west The Walney Geranium is so rare it is only found on Walney. View 14 Once planned to rival Morecambe and ’s View 15 The beach offers panoramic views of the , the 9. Sea Front Parking relocated structures around the country, including at • Safe space to try new activities • Multi sensory space Island. seaside resorts, Earnse Bay is the most popular beach in Barrow. Isle of Man, the Lake District mountains, and the wind farms. the Eden Project in Cornwall. and improve health • VR room 10. Bus Stop relocated • Play area for children / play area for • Waterproofs (children don’t have these Within his book (Walney A Wall In The Sea - TRESCATHERIC, Bryn) describes name variations with 11. Road re-routed around Car Park These pictures show living willow dens built young children / play park for special things - need funding to get kit) a “bewildering variety of subtle changes: 1127 - Wagneia, 1246 - Wannegai, 1336 - Waghenay, When the ice began to melt this ‘finger like’ body of water pushed its way southward allowing ‘three’ small bodies of land to be parted from the 12. Controlled Access into by Woodmatters in Kendal. needs children / clean parks • First Aid Room mainland each forming a small islet, evidence of which remains in the name ‘Earnse’ meaning Eagle Isle now better known as Earnse Bay. As We could get local groups to come long • Store room for all sports • A stage for actors 1404 - Wawenay and 1537 - Wauay. 1127 being the first recorded use of the Walney name.” West Shore Park (traffic lights and help build these structures around the equipment / storage rooms • Indoor/outdoor seating area each glacier movement deposited large amounts of rock, clay and sand in its wake the three islets became eventually merged to become one. / pelican crossing / etc.) (LOST LANCASHIRE - EVANS, Arthur) site. • 3g pitch for football/rugby

Image courtesy of Woodmatters View 07 Looking south along West Shore Park Road Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre A Place By The Sea A Building For The Community A Place For All Of The Community Creating Places For Children To Play - What Happens Next, and When? That Is Part Of The Landscape North Scale, Walney From Geranium to Propellers Information taken from Northscale: the history of a Furness Village by WB Kendall and read by Harper Gaythorpe to the Barrow Field Naturalists Club in 1899.

In the 10th century, Walney was colonised by Norwegians, hence Children tell us they want: a lot of names being of Norse origin on the island. Walney comes You can view this exhibition and submit comments online at: from Hvene O meaning Bent island named after the bent grass Timeline: which appeared to be the chief crop on the island at the time. • A place to play, to be with Scale is Norse for a temporary hut or shed. It is likely that Biggar friends and family was the only permanent village on Walney and that North Scale was the site of sheds built for the convenience of farmers • Places to climb, slide, swing, jump, hide www..gov.uk/earnsebay cultivating the north end of the island. A permanent settlement and seek and sing and tell stories was founded at North Scale once the danger of raids had • Places where they could build dens diminished. and create their own play places Alternatively Please feel free to write down your thoughts and comments on the squares below: When Furness Abbey was founded in 1127, Walney was • Places where they could try new activities uncultivated and the Monks established granges at North End, with other people from their community North Scale, Biggar and South End. Originally the grange operated the three field system of farming meaning crops were • Places to plant and grow food, planted in rotation: oats, peas and beans in one field; wheat, rye be in, and learn about nature and winter barley in the second and the third set of fields would • A place where there would be water to lay fallow ready to be ploughed and planted with oats the following year. play in, earth to dig, wind to fly kites and power things and fire to toast marshmallows, cook and sit around Autumn 2020 There could be a series of interventions down by the sea. We could refurbish and extend the WCs. Maybe there could be some public art or a shelter also. We could make some food stalls out of shipping containers. The building could be a gateway to the site from the boulevard. The building could shelter the site from the wind and sun. The building could mimic Black Combe. Norse settlers built turf roofs as slate was not available. Concept sketch plan for the landscaping. Groups of plants and Concept sketch section for the landscaping, with suggested plants and trees species. 12th Century monks divided up The arable landthe commonwas divided lands into 21on common Walney fields, unenclosed • A place where they could recycle trees acting as buffers to the south westerly winds. Barrow Town Deal is by hedges andIsland each for field crop was rotations. divided into 48 narrow strips or waste materials for creative projects dales. Each tenant had 3 dales in each field making a total of 63 WALNEY ISLAND, a long, low hump of grass, boulder clay, sand dunes and sea-borne stones, is shaped in total. There was little meadow land in the fields but 250 acres • Meet and make new friends, allocated £25 million Key of moorland on the west of the island provided tenants with have fun and be happy pasture for horses and cattle. Until the late 15th century, there like a gigantic, stranded whale. were no sheep at North Scale, but due to the agricultural 1. New Community Site Landscape, community and play - a (LOST LANCASHIRE - EVANS, Arthur) depression at that time, two fields were left fallow and eventually - Grass meadows North Scale by Abel the monks turned these fields into a sheep farm with a cottage or concept Masson circa 1900 cote for the shepherd. This then became known at Idlecote. 2. New Community Building Z3491 The history of Barrow and Walney Island is Initial consultation with 3. Refurbished Changing Rooms as a symbiotic one. The formation of the island Tool Shed or Recycling Centre In the 1560s a windmill was built on protected Barrow from the Irish Sea. The Towards the end of the 13th century, the abbey granges Walney so that farmers did not have to schools and communities 4. Refurbished WCs / changing were divided into small holdings and let to tenants. North cross to the mainland to get their grain industry of Barrow created Vickerstown. We The refurbished building could reflect the gun emplacements. scale was divided between 16 tenants grouped into 4 rooms / info point / viewing milled. This mill was situated on the west are therefore proposing a landscape that began March 2021 farms of burgages. Rent was paid partly in kind and partly of the island near the cricket club. Due to platform / class room as a monetary payment. For example the tenants had to an increase in the amount of grain grown celebrates the history of Walney Island and 5. Pedestrianised Route to Sea cart 20 loads of peat from Angerton Moss to the abbey on the island, a second mill was built in Barrow on a walk through the medium of each year. Each burgage had to provide 1 man for Front through new dunescape 1763 by Richard Bankes at North End. It the four elements of matter - Earth, Wind, military service and one man to act as a painlooker, one operated until the 1860s when it fell into 6. New Sea Front Location of these being the Grave who served for 4 years. Their disrepair and was demolished when the Fire and Water. 7. Access to Coastal Walk job was to inspect ditches and water courses and to elect airfield was built. The first windmill lasted WE ARE HERE! the Herd who looked after the town bull. The The Grave until the 1770s. 8. Access to Beach via Slip book which records the names of the grave and Little is known about the pre-historic times 9. Sea Front Parking relocated painlookers between 1820 to 1922 is stored in the Archive and the inhabitation of Walney-Island, The Tirpitz Bunker Museum in Denmark. 23 10. Bus Stop relocated Centre. Walney Channel by but discoveries were made in the 1930s of Ben Lones 11. Road re-routed around Car Park 7 1940s/1950s. flint arrow heads and other similar items, 12. Controlled Access into West Z 3406 amongst the North End sand-dunes and 22 This is the Nautical Centre in St Hilaire in France. Shore Park (traffic lights / various other areas of Walney. Walney

pelican crossing / etc.) Photographs of North Scale taken in has therefore been a constant habitat for 13. Formal garden around 8 about 1895. man since neolithic times. Installations BLC 282/CY/NOR Summer 2021 rainwater harvesting pond 21 In 1644 a group of Royalist troops attacked North could include simple den making activities, 14. Beach with Norse longboat dens Scale in order to hold the low water crossings in the building with earth and so on. Full business case is submitted 15. Allotments / raised beds Channel. There were defeated but the following day 20 for community growing they returned and finding the village deserted set fire Norsemen were likely the first immigrants to it. to Government for funding to populate Walney, coming from the Isle 16. Living willow arch 17. Camping 19 George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, of Man and Ireland toward the latter end This nursery in New Zealand visually shelters children playing 18. BBQ area with canopy of visited Walney in 1652. On his second visit he was of the ninth century. Rainwater could be submarine propellers 24 attacked by about 40 men with staves, clubs and collected from the roof to create a pond or beyond, and wraps around the playgrounds. fishing poles who tried to push him into the sea. He The Thy National Park Centre is a visitors centre next to the sea. 19. Wildflower meadow lined with 26 marsh in the south west of the site. Shelters was saved by James Lancaster, a Quaker, who then Autumn 2021 hedges and trees as gardens 25 became a missionary in America. could be made to resemble Norse boats, and privacy to West Shore Park 12 and so on. An announcement on funding 20. Geodesic greenhouses 6 5 21. Pump track 2 1 Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow-in-Furness Fire would represent the Industrial is anticipated 22. Access to West Shore Park Revolution coming to Barrow and Walney. 4 10 23. Nature walk through maintained The establishment of railways, steel furnaces 29 hedges and brambles 17 and ship-building led to a huge population 24. Railway increase on Walney. Activities could include 25. Seaside shacks 28 11 cooking, bonfires, and so on. Design Development - to 9 16 26. Public art / shelter made At Crosby Beach in Liverpool, there are 100 cast iron sculptures. using a wind turbine blade Wind is the past (Kings Mill windmills), the include more opportunities for 27. Planting as protection 13 15 present and future of Walney as the country from the elements transitions to clean, carbon free energy. you to influence the design Gateway to North Walney Nature Reserve. The WCs could be refurbished and extended; sculptures or shelters could be installed; pop-up or permanent businesses coulld inhabit the shipping containers. The community building growing out of the landscape. We could add a walking route over the green roof for amazing views of the bay. 28. Tarmac car park replaced The world’s largest wind farm sits 14km off 14 and direction of the project with grasscrete 3 Walney and represents the potential for 29. Canal change.

Possible Play Activities Possible play activities Planning Application The Whale grows out of the ground, defined by the rocks 27 • Digging, burying • Damming / submitted around it. 7 and finding redirecting water • Planting and growing • Building water courses • Mixing (earth • Water transfer / Pavillions at Marseilles’ Vieux Port. and water) transporting • Mud kitchen /café • Natural pond building • Making potions • Pond dipping Earth - Walney • Earth sculptures Water - Norse • Playing with water Contractor Appointed has been • Pottery and immigrants and sand occupied since at clay making Map of neolithic finds on Walney Island Using hands as tools. moved to Walney • Water experiments A Norse axe head, kept at the Barrow Dock Museum. least Neolithic • Tool making by boat from • Water fights times; confirmed for digging Ireland and the • Water slides by the recent • Pretend Isle of Man • Water power excavation of archaeological digs generation flint tools to • Wattle and daub • Water wheels Sunset at Earnse Bay. Paths through the dunes. Community orchard Woodland / copse Birch Guelder Rose Brambles Formal hedgerow. Native hedgerows Rosa canina Grassland Grassland Grassland Ornamental gardens the south of the • Making small • Building boats and island worlds for play other watercrafts Construction on site • Building earth • Plumbing

ramps for bikes • Waterproof shelters « • Map making • Rain collection Apple Blossom Hawthorn Monterey Pine Sea Buckthorn Brambles Formal hedgerows Native hedgerows Honeysuckle Grassland Grassland Grassland Herbs - borage Neolithic finds on Walney Island The early stages of socialising The Anastasi, sunk in 1946. Playing in water.

Possible Play Activities Possible play activities • Pottery • Making Flags • Paper mache hot • Making Windmills air balloon • Wind power Spring 2024 (or earlier!) There could be community dinners and parties on the sea front. • Bread making generation • Cooking on fires • Making kites Facility is open for use! • Roasting • Wind powered Floating roofs at this nursery in New Zealand, protect children marshmallows go-carts from the sun and the rain. Fire - The • Fire building, Wind - the past, • Making wind chimes Industrial lighting and safety present and • Hot air balloons We went on a trip to the Eden Project Pergolas as shading devices Impromptu display walls in external rooms Pavilions as shelter and event spaces Revolution; • Fire sculpture The Barrow Haematite Company 1947 Camping evenings and bonfires. future of industry • Wind instruments There were five ‘Kings Mills’ on Walney. There could be kite festivals on the sea. Barrow and • Casting in Barrow, and • Sound installations Walney Island’s • Melting on Walney, as • Hammocks symbiotic rise • Keeping warm the country • Rope swings through the • Story telling transitions to • Archery 1850s to the • Bush craft a carbon free • Sound and light 1950s • Fire / steam power power grid. experiments generation • Jumping and dropping • Bonfire night experiments celebrations • Zip wires • Barbecues A safe pedestrian route from the park to the sea. A man-made dunescape (with rubbish-filled gabions as a substrate) lining a route to the park. The community building as a gateway to the park. Rainwater conservation garden at WWT Slimbridge. A large, flexible space for all the community to use; looking over the community garden. Lots of natural daylight and ventilation. Hidden underneath this undulating roof is a whisky distillery. Planted borders to mown lawns Living willow structures With textured floors to external rooms Pocket play areas Formal ponds Statues and sculptures BAE build submarines in Barrow There could be community BBQs or pizza. - the biggest in the World Kite surfing is popular in Earnse Bay.