News on Raploch Street Design

We’re very excited about the Raploch Street Design’s Public Session 2: Design Development Event, which will take place on the 22nd November at St Mark’s Parish Church 3pm-8pm. Everyone’s invited to drop-in during the afternoon and evening or join one of our Design Workshops, starting at 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm.

In this session, we will share with you what we have done so far and feedback to you the design themes which we have developed from the comments we’ve gathered along the way.

Through two design workshops, we will together develop design ideas for the project area to address some of the issues raised. We will do this by working with a to-scale model kit of Raploch Road and the Drip Road connecting to the college. If you are not able to participate in the design workshops, don’t worry, there will be plenty of opportunities for you to tell us how you would like to address some of the issues raised and we look forward to exploring this with you.

There will also be a ‘Walking and Cycling’ zone, in which you can tell us about what the barriers to walking and cycling are in the Raploch, and participate in related activities.

There will also be a free Dr Bike (provided by Recyke-a-bike), that will provide a bike health check, so please bring your bike along.

People of all ages and abilities are very welcome, and we are doing all we can to make the event accessible to all. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact Irene at Irene.tortajada@sustrans.org.uk

There will be an activity area for children and toddlers, so don’t hesitate to bring them along too!

Free community dinner will be served from 5:30 pm, so come along and grab a bite and share your thoughts with us!

We will also be running a Community Liaison Group meeting and lunch on the 14th of November at 12 pm in the Raploch Community Campus (Room 1). During this meeting we will test some aspects of session 2, to gather feedback and suggestions on how to improve them before we have the event the following week. If you’d like to get involved in the project's community group, please let Irene know at Irene.tortajada@sustrans.org.uk .