We are very excited to announce that Design Council/CABE and the Friends of Down Lane Park have selected CLEAR VILLAGE as the design partner for the Alley Links project in Tottenham, northeast London. Alley Links is part of the Design Your Neighbourhood programme that matches community groups with local design organisations to provide expertise in architecture, planning and urban design. Of several Design Council/CABE-funded projects, Alley Links is the only one in London, so we’re very proud to be a part of it!
The brief from Friends of Down Lane Park, the local community group, is to generate a strategic design to improve the public realm around Tottenham High Road, an area that was the epicentre of last summer’s London riots. Specifically, the community members would like to address the problematic alleyways — which are unsafe, untidy, and discouraging for users, especially at night — that link a heavily-used stretch of the High Road with the residential neighbourhoods to the east.
Through movement and activity mapping and a series of curated participatory design workshops, CLEAR VILLAGE and the community will co-create a concept design for these access routes with the objective of turning the alleys from liabilities into assets for the community. This will provide the Friends of Down Lane Park with a proposal that will allow them to go forward and make big-impact, positive changes that build on the vibrancy and diversity of the area. Watch this space for updates!
