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In 2003 Chippenham Town Council had the drive, vision and ambition to seek an alternative site for its local sports clubs. Up until then the sports offer to its growing number of football and sports clubs was a rather small and unsuitable open space, often rendered unplayable due to the fact that it was adjacent [...]

Churchdown, in Gloucestershire, needed a special place with a sense of identity, right in the centre of the Parish; a place which all residents could enjoy and which they could be proud of. The project started by taking the aspirations as stated in the Parish Plan and attempting to turn them into reality.  How do [...]

When Eden District Council had to make cuts to funding for community groups and local good causes in Penrith there was a need to find an alternative way of funding new projects, groups and events to ensure the vibrancy of the town remained. Penrith Chamber of Trade and Commerce developed and researched the idea of [...]

Arts, media and heritage student numbers have grown significantly in recent years at Kendal College – but the college needed more facilities for them. So in 2009 the college started the redevelopment a brownfield site, creating an iconic new building (The Box, completed in May 2011), and took on the management of Kendal’s museum – [...]

As the ‘Gateway to the Lake District’, Kendal suffers as much as benefits from its location – tourists, particularly adventure tourists often drive straight past. Additionally, between the main adventure tourist seasons of summer and winter (a ‘Shoulder Period) the whole of South Lakeland suffers an annual downturn. KMF, now the world’s largest Mountain Film [...]

The results of Wilmslow’s AMT Market Town Benchmarking Survey carried out in 2010/2011 showed that despite the perceived affluence of the town, like many other towns in the UK it was suffering at the hands of out-of-town shopping centres (Trafford Centre & Handforth Dean), internet shopping and parking charges. The report also highlighted that Wilmslow [...]