News on Raploch Street Design

The Raploch Street Design team is back to work after the holidays. We hope you had a great festive period and wish you a very happy New Year. We’re starting 2019 with lots of energy!

The team has got more new benches and planters for Raploch Road, which we have assembled and sanded. On Monday we will start to add some colour to them.

The Raploch Street Design Community Liaison Group and attendees at our last session voted for where they’d like the new benches to be located in the project area.

We will add benches to the 3 most voted areas, which will be locked to 3 planters. The benches are not permanent, so if the location turns out not to be right, we can relocate them or take them away. We will also add a nice new planter to the bench we had already placed next to a bus stop near the fire station.

Anne and Helenor, members of the Community Liaison Group, will help us set up the benches in their locations and add nice plants the planters next week. They have been of great help to the project so far, being great champions for the community. We are also planning on adding a community notice board on the side of the Great Wall take-away very soon.

Session 3: Design

This week the team has started thinking about design options based on your comments, which we will present at our Session 3: Co-Design. This will take place on the 15th March from 1 pm till 7 pm in the Raploch Community Campus - please save the date! You will be able to drop in any time to give us feedback on the designs, which will help us change them accordingly. As always, people of all ages and abilities are welcome, as we are working to make the event accessible to everyone.

Community Liaison Group Meeting: Active Travel

The 8th of February the Community Liaison Group will take part in an active travel workshop delivered by our dedicated Behaviour Change Officer Kasia. The group will be able to share their views on walking and cycling, which will help inform our active travel recommendations in the final report.

If you’d like to be part of the Raploch Street Design Community Liaison Group, please email Irene at irene.tortajada@sustrans.org.uk , and remember to subscribe to our blog to stay updated.