News on Raploch Street Design

Last Thursday the Raploch Street Design had a very successful Public Session at St. Mark’s Parish Church, who were wonderful hosts of the event. Thanks very much to everyone that joined us, we were overwhelmed by your enthusiasm and commitment to the community.

Over 70 people joined us and gave us lots of very good ideas for potential designs. We are really looking forward to translating it all to design ideas for Raploch Road and north Drip Road.

The team organised two design workshops, which gave attendees the chance to turn the comments gathered so far into designs for the streets. We gave them a series of to-scale design items such as street furniture, trees and crossings, which they then placed on the map to indicate where they would like to add these to transform Raploch Road and north Drip Road.

A wide variety of residents and community members joined the workshops, including children and teachers from the local schools, senior citizens, students from the college, local councillor Jim Thomson, a representative from Stirling Area Access Panel and many more. They worked together to ensure that the design they came up with met the needs of people of all ages and abilities.

To make sure that the suggested designs work for the whole community, we are planning to take this workshop to groups that weren’t able to make it to St. Marks’s, such as Forthbank Care Home and youth groups. If you’d like to stay updated on this, please subscribe to this page.

Throughout the event we offered a welcoming space to those that wanted to drop in but couldn’t commit to the whole length of the workshop.

We prepared an exhibition showing what we’ve done so far and summarising our findings.

Attendees were also able to let us know whether they thought what we’ve gathered so far is right, and if we’ve missed anything.

We asked attendees to indicate where they’d like to locate more benches and a community notice board. For more on this stay tuned to our blog.

We also had a walking and cycling area where we asked attendees about their experience of walking and cycling in the area. Recyke-a-Bike and Stirling Active Travel Hub also joined us to provide a free Dr Bike for attendees and tell them about Bikes for All - thank you very much for that!

• The 4th of December we will be delivering a walking and cycling workshop at Forth Valley College, aimed at the youth leadership group at Big Noise.

• The 7th of December we will be at the Christmas fair in the Raploch Community Campus to provide information about the project and share the Christmas cheer.

• The 7th December in the afternoon we will hold a design workshop at Forthbank Care Home.

• The 10th of December we will have a walking and wheeling audit of Raploch Road and the Drip Road with Castleview Primary and Forthbank Care Home.

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Our next Public Session will be in March, where we will show you some design options based on what you’ve told us so far, and you’ll be invited to give us feedback on them. You’ll also be able to comment on the designs on this website. Stay tuned and subscribe for more on this!