Hello,I hope this finds you well and enjoying the summer. ​As you know, over the past year, Sustrans has been working in partnership with Stirling Council on the Raploch Street Design project. This project was an exciting initiative to get local people involved in improving public space on Raploch Road and Drip Road. To evaluate the impact of the project, we would like to hear the views from those involved with the project. We invite you to complete this <a href="https://sustrans.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/raploch-street-design-1819-community-follow-up-survey">short online survey</a> about the project and the engagement process. This should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete and is available to complete until Friday 16th August.As a thank you for completing the survey, you will have the chance to enter a prize draw to win a £50 Sainsbury’s shopping voucher. ​<a href="https://sustrans.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/raploch-street-design-1819-community-follow-up-survey">Please click here to take part</a> <a href="https://survey.sustrans.org.uk/livewelluniversity"> </a>​<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1564498761/projects/raploch/cropped196-8815%2520%2528Medium%2529.png" />All the best,The Sustrans TeamPrize draw T&amp;Cs available as part of the survey.

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<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1561454131/projects/raploch/cropped190-cropped103-cropped84-SDRAP_Blog_Huntly%25252520Cres%25252520Name.png" />Is it Huntley, or Huntly Crescent? This is the question we’ve been asking ourselves the last few months. It seems there isn’t just one answer. Some people have told us that the ‘e’ belongs and others have told us that it doesn’t. So we decided to see if we could track down the missing ‘e’ and we found it hiding on an OS Map Published in 1951. So chances are, if you’ve called Raploch home for many years, and you remember the houses that stood in the area before their demolition then you’ll remember it this way.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1561453974/projects/raploch/cropped129-OS%2520Map%2520Huntley%2520Cresc%2520195152.png" /> However, something happened that would begin the great spelling debate just after the turn of the millennium. Until 2001 Huntley was commonly spelt with an ‘e’, but when the old houses on Huntley Crescent were demolished, so too was the letter ‘e’. “ <a href="http://minutes.stirling.gov.uk/pdfs/care/Reports/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20ca20010524%20glendevon%20_78_.pdf">The 2001 report</a> to Stirling Council asking for permission to demolish the properties was the last reference I can find to Huntley Crescent” said Cllr Thomson who assisted us on the case of the missing letter.When the new houses were built they were registered with the address ‘Huntly Crescent’. It is very difficult to change an address after it has been registered, so it seems whoever put in the application, by design or by error changed the spelling forever for future inhabitants. This is the spelling that can be found on recently published maps and on Google Maps. A trace of the past still remains though, the popular Day Today shop may be just behind the council’s recently installed new sign for ‘Huntly Crescent’, but the building appears to be the only one we can find that has retained the ‘e’ in its official address. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1561454015/projects/raploch/cropped249-IMG_0239%2520%2528Medium%2529.png" />

How Huntly Crescent Lost a Letter

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1560504577/projects/raploch/IMG_0192%20(Medium).jpg" />On 6th June, 120 people came together at our community celebration event to see the updated designs and to thank everybody involved with the Raploch Street Design Project from start to finish!Children from all three primary schools, people living nearby, representatives from St Mark’s Church, Stirling Council Councillors, members of the Community Council and Raploch Community Partnership, business owners and residents from a local care home came along to take part in the celebrations and see the updated designs.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1560505983/projects/raploch/IMG_0727%20(Medium).jpg" />The designs were displayed for all to see, as well as the visuals and a plan for the temporary interventions on Huntley Crescent. Our team was on hand to explain how we’ve adapted these in response to your feedback – and to handout special branded cupcakes made for the occasion! You can find the updated designs <a href="https://raploch.commonplace.is/overview">on this page here.</a><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1560504930/projects/raploch/IMG_0410%20(Medium).jpg" />Reimagining the streets, we hopped, jumped, and skipped our way across our chalked out trail to take part in two design walkabouts of the project area with the Rebel Writers group from Raploch Primary, the Junior Road Safety Officers from Our Lady’s Primary and local councillors Jim Thompson and Susan McGill.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1560505115/projects/raploch/cropped126-IMG_0272%2520%2528Medium%2529.png" /> The celebration was made even better by our friends from Stirling Active Travel Hub who brought along their cycle-powered smoothie maker and a selection of e-bikes for anyone to try. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1560505352/projects/raploch/cropped105-IMG_0166%2520%2528Medium%2529.png" />We’d especially like to thank members of the Community Liaison Group who met for the last time a week before this event. The group has been vital to the success of the designs and we are happy to say that members are continuing to think about ways in which they can make a positive change in the community, and encourage more walking and cycling in the area.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1560505378/projects/raploch/IMG_0402%20(Medium).jpg" />What next? You can view the updated designs <a href="https://raploch.commonplace.is/overview">here</a> alongside explanations of the changes in the design. The designs are now being handed over to Stirling Council with a view to construction in 2021. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1024/v1560505452/projects/raploch/IMG_0257%20(Medium).jpg" />