What was the problem?
The Craylands estate consisted originally of primarily council-built property dating from the post war era. The properties needed considerable redevelopment (including significant demolition and re-build) and the area has acquired some negative perceptions.
The Project is a significant initiative involving the remodelling of the Craylands Estate and redeveloping the former Fryerns School site as a new sustainable neighbourhood.
The development aims to meet the aspirations of the community and the broad objectives of the regional Sustainable Communities Plan.
What action was taken?
A number of initiatives are in development with regard ot the regeneration of the Craylands Estate. In order to maximise the potential of a Learning Lab within the wider regeneration plans, this project has focused in particular on helping to create a brief for redeveloping the former Fryerns School site as the new neighbourhood centre.
A range of key stake-holders were identified as groups who were likely to benefit significantly from generic skills development. The immediate beneficiary was identified as the inter-agency working group that has been meeting to help the development of the neighbourhood centre. It consists of 10-20 officers from a broad range of agencies and organisations.
The project was intended to develop communication, collaboration and consensus building skills. In using this approach it was hoped to bring clarity to the early stages “at a time when the multi-disciplinary professional team are working together to define the project and its parameters”. It aimed also to “clarify the requirements of the proposed centre, review the outline business plan, agree the preferred management model and develop a community led design brief”.
Three key stages were proposed:
• Diagnosis: Understanding the programme and design a learning programme to address those specific needs
• Implementation: delivering the learning program, including induction courses, community engagement, workshops, study trips and lectures
• Evaluation: measuring quantitative and qualitative benefits on a continuous basis.
Topics associated with this project
Communication, Community-led, East England, Neighbourhood, Regeneration, Skills