routes to urban regeneration

The Castleford Project

Project structure • Accountable Body: Wakefield Council• Steering Group• Funding Group• Programme manager (Mace)• Cost manager (Gleeds)• Project Teams: Community leader (Client lead),

Local Authority project manager, Architect

Ancillary events programme• Property advice shop for retailers• Partnership management advice shop• Curriculum activity in local schools• Financial support for community events• Management training for community activists• Co-ordination of volunteering activity• Public art commissions• Art exhibitions• Club nights

Lol Coxhill in a skip Concept Simon Thackray. Produced by The Shed. Photo: Tony Bartholomew

Lol Coxhill in a skip Concept Simon Thackray. Produced by The Shed. Photo: Tony Bartholomew

Impacts (since March 2003)• 10 new public realm projects created and delivered• 3 new community groups and 1 business association

formed (now in fifth years)• £100k initial seed investment by Channel 4 and £70k

grant from CABE has become £14m capital & £3m revenue programme

• Partnership of eighteen public and private organisations

• Closure of two chemical factories and release of 150ha of brownfield land for residential development

• New retail, residential and cultural development plans in place for the town, valued at over £200m

• Two projects have now delivered second phase• Planning applications now coming forward for further

waterfront development• Involvement of local, national, international designers

and artists in a former coalfield town• Involvement of over 10,000 local people in an

organic, non funding-round-locked programme of social, economic and physical renewal

Project partners

• Wakefield Metropolitan District Council

• Yorkshire Forward• English Partnerships• Channel 4 Television• CABE• Arts Council England• Coalfields Regeneration

Trust• Groundwork Wakefield• Environment Agency

• British Waterways• Waste Recylcing Group

(WREN)• Ibstock• Big Lottery• Edinburgh House Estates• Sure Start• Scarman Trust• Heritage Lottery Fund• Geographers Association

Community partners

• Castleford Heritage Group• Custyke Community Group• Lock Lane Residents

Association• Friends of the Green• Wilson Street Community

Triangle

• Friends of the Riverside• Sagar Street Traders

Association• Castleford Town Centre

Partnership• Castleford Parks

Partnership