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Competition to create public spaces for 6 East Lancashire towns
2:45pm Thursday 7th August 2008
By David Watkinson »
A DESIGN competition to create public spaces in six East Lancashire town centres is being launched next week.
Pennine Lancashire Squared aims to find the best landscape architects and public realm designers in the world to create high-profile spaces at the heart of Burnley, Accrington, Blackburn, Bacup, Clitheroe, and Nelson.
More than 300 design practices have already registered their interest and requested the brief.
The competition is the brain-child of Yvette Livesey and her late partner Anthony H Wilson, who proposed the competition as a means of attracting talent to the area, raising its profile and creating outstanding public spaces in each town.
Their report, Dreaming of Pennine Lancashire, coined the term Pennine Lancashire for the former mill towns of East Lancashire.
Yvette was appointed by Elevate, the regeneration agency for Pennine Lancashire, which works with partners from the public and private sectors to improve the housing market.
The Landscape Institute, the chartered body for landscape architects, is running the competition, with the endors-ement of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
The competition has received funding from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), and is being imp- lemented by the boroughs of Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Ribble Valley, and Rossendale, with support from Lancashire County Council.
Max Steinberg, the chief executive of Elevate, said: “We believe that creating beautifully- designed public spaces at the centre of six of Pennine Lancashire’s towns will set the stage for new dramas to unfold and new stories to be told.
“Within a decade we want to see art, landscape and architecture students, and professionals from across the globe descending on Pennine Lancashire to study world-class examples of public space design.”
Potential locations for the spaces have not been revealed.
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A Darener, Darwen says...
2:42pm Fri 8 Aug 08
It's called a building site right in the centre.
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