ESTATE PLANNING
Neil Orpwood
m of office accommodation, a local service centre, business centre, community gallery and café, and library facilities, the Civic Centre now houses 2,400 staff, and delivers improved public services and community facilities.
At the Woolwich Civic Centre, HLM’s approach was ‘to create transformational change through signature thinking – optimising Council assets becoming a catalyst for regeneration and improving public sector service delivery’. Comprising some 250,000 ft2
too. All towns should be considering a reduction in car use, ensuring enough public transport stops that provide safe and welcoming shelter to wait at. Reviewing cycle and pedestrian connections should also take place to ensure that they are better interlinked and more visible. Promoting active travel solutions, and keeping them well maintained throughout the public realm, really does provide many more benefits than just being able to park by the front door. While we all work to resolve our need to have a vehicle each, even a short
walk from the easily accessible car park to our destination, through well-designed landscaped public realm, can provide that small moment to reset and mentally prepare, reducing stress, and improving our ability to cope. Finally, let’s place true value on the public realm experience, and ensure that it is inclusive and accessible to all. Councils should be setting targets to improve the urban greening factor, and ensure that residents universally have access to green space, close to home and work. By including all these elements to
Neil Orpwood qualified as an architect in 1995, having started his degree at North East London Polytechnic in 1985. He is a Chartered Member of the RIBA, and has worked at HLM Architects in Sheffield since leaving full-time education (albeit initially spending a one-year spell as a shop assistant in London, ‘waiting for the economy to improve’, in 1992). Heading up HLM’s Healthcare Team both nationally and internationally, he has a detailed knowledge of this specialist sector, working on a spectrum of projects, from small refurbishments through to multi- million-pound facilities.
define a holistic masterplan at local level, building out from the acute hospital estate, and encompassing existing successful borough council service provision, as well as county-wide connections, we can do just that.
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