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December 2004
Fact Finding Tour For Key Regeneration Figure
New developments designed to boost the town's future will come under the spotlight of a key figure in regional regeneration next week in an event organised by the Castleford Project. Tom Riordan, Executive Director of Strategy and Policy for Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency, will be heading to Castleford as part of a fact finding tour. Read more>> |
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December 2004
Focus On Future Of Riverside
The future of Castleford's riverside is the focus of a public consultation event in the town next week. Organised as part of the Castleford Project, the event will bring together Renato Benedetti, the designer of a new pedestrian riverbridge, with local Police, Wakefield District Council officers, Groundwork and British Waterways. Read more>> |
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December 2004
Project Welcomes New Steering Group Members
Two new members have been welcomed to the Castleford Project Steering Group.
Castleford Central & Glasshoughton Councillor Mark Burns-Williamson and Cutsyke Community Group Secretary Rheta Davison will now join the ranks of local and national expert advisors which monitors progress with the Project's 11 community improvement schemes. Read more>> |
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December 2004
Children Dig Deep For Castleford Project
Over 800 local school children get digging on Thursday (December 2) when they join a mass planting of bulbs at The Green, Ferry Fryston, in support of The Castleford Project. Read more>> |
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November 2004
Castleford Project Architect Wins Award
The designer of one of the Castleford Project's most ambitious community regeneration schemes, Sarah Wigglesworth MBE, has been honoured with a top national award. Sarah, who is developing detailed designs for transforming the town's waterfront, has won the Royal Institute of British Architects Sustainability Award. This recognised her excellence in the development of Stock Orchard Street, a 'green' residential project beside the busy rail approach to King's Cross Station in London. The award is made to the building that demonstrates most elegantly and durably the principles of sustainable architecture. Read more>> |
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November 2004
Riverside Campaigners In Tv Spotlight
Castleford community campaigners Roy Wright and Wendy Rayner face the TV spotlight tomorrow when celebrity presenter Kevin McCloud interviews them about their efforts to improve the town's riverside. Read more>> |
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November 2004
Regen School Students Gain Awards
Six students who will be featured in the Castleford Project when it is screened on Channel Four next year have graduated from Regen School's Coalfields Programme in Sheffield. They are among 27 students from community projects across Yorkshire who celebrated their graduation last Friday. The Coalfields Programme is the result of a unique partnership between The Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) and Regen School South Yorkshire. Read more>> |
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October 2004
Project Plays Host To Exhibition Of New Work
A series of new paintings by artist Blue Wilson will be the focus of an exhibition at the Castleford Regeneration Project Office next month.
The event is the latest in a series of cultural events organised by the Castleford Project and funded by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust to raise the profile of the importance of wider access to arts in the regeneration process. Read more>> |
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October 2004
Volunteers Appeal For Riverside
Volunteers are being urged to support major community clean up action on the riverside in Castleford next week. A week-long clean up begins on Monday October 25 which supports the wider aims of the Castleford regeneration Project. It will be led by members of the Castleford Riverside Community Group. Read more>> |
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October 2004
'Make A Difference' At Cutsyke
Designers, TV crews, Channel 4 representatives, community and council volunteers all join forces to 'Make a Difference' at Cutsyke on Saturday, (October 30), and clear a former allotments site to be transformed into a spectacular new children's play forest.
The event is part of national 'Make a Difference' day organised to highlight how direct community action can bring real improvements. Read more>> |
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October 2004
Castleford Project Focus At Top National Conference
Development of the world's first televised regeneration scheme the Castleford Project is to be one of the key focuses at a top national conference later this week. (October 6/7)
David Barrie, Project Director and an Executive Producer with Talkback Productions for Channel 4, has been invited to chart the development and progress of the Project at this year's Institution of Economic Development annual conference in Leeds. Read more>> |
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October 2004
Castleford Project Welcomes New Face
Groundbreaking regeneration scheme the Castleford Project this week welcomes a new Communications Manager, Carmel O'Toole.
Carmel joins the project from her former role as Joint Head of Communications with Rotherham Borough Council. Her task will be to further spread the word about progress and developments around this unique project. Read more>> |
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August 2004
Castleford Project Brings Street Art to Town Centre
The Castleford Project is hosting a celebration of street art in the town centre throughout August. The Project's Sagar Street base will be transformed into an art gallery in order to host a month-long exhibition of street art. In addition a variety of other workshops and demonstrations will take place in Castleford town centre as part of the festival. Read more>> |
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August 2004
CABE applauds ambition of Castleford projects
The latest project plans for the regeneration of Castleford, Yorkshire, have been greeted with enthusiasm by CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment). Read more>> |
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June 2004
First Planning Consent Granted In Advance of Channel 4
Regeneration Show
National regeneration agency, English Partnerships has received planning consent for the transformation of the village green in Fryston, Castleford which is at the heart of the wider regeneration of the 98 ha Fryston and Wheldale site running alongside the river Aire. Read more>> |
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June 2004
Hudson Architects Selected To Design Castleford Market Stall
London-based Hudson Architects has been selected to develop its design ideas for a 21st century market stall following a weekend community consultation event hosted by Wakefield Metropolitan District Council last month (7 & 8 May) as part of The Castleford Project. Read more>> |
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May 2004
Back To School For Cutsyke Grandmothers
Sixty-four year old Pat Hardisty and 54 year-old Maggie Beckett are going back to school nearly a decade since they waved goodbye to their jobs as a clerk and receptionist respectively. Read more>> |
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May 2004
Markets Prove A Winner
The people of Castleford turned out in their hundreds last weekend (Friday 7th and Saturday 8th May) to learn more about plans to relocate the outside market to the heart of the town and to vote on their preferred new market stall design. Read more>> |
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April 2004
Public Toilet Offers Place For Thought
A derelict toilet at the heart of a run-down park exploded into colour and became the focus of graffiti on Easter Saturday as local youngsters were encouraged to scrawl ideas about how they would like to see their park transformed to reflect modern day living. Read more>> |
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February 2004
Go-Ahead For Castleford Project
Wakefield Council's Cabinet have given the go-ahead to make an immediate start on a range of schemes making up the 'Castleford Project' – a collaborative initiative between various regeneration organisations and Channel 4 TV – which will have a significant impact on the town's regeneration and will be showcased in a national five-part TV series. Read more>> |
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February 2004
A Fishy Tale
One of the country's top architectural designers is coming up with a plan to help reintroduce salmon to a Yorkshire river 200 years after the development of the industrial revolution led to the demise of marine life in the west Yorkshire ex-mining town. Read more>> |
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January 2004
Top Architectural Designers To Transform West Yorkshire Town Centre And Riverside
Some of the country's top architectural designers are being commissioned to take forward their ideas for the revitalisation of Castleford town centre and its riverside as part of the Castleford Project – a regeneration initiative that is to be the basis of a major national TV series. Leading designers, Hudson Architects and DSDHA Ltd. are to be appointed to lead on work in the town centre, including working up detailed plans for key public areas in the town centre and proposed plans for the relocation of the town's outdoor market Read more>> |
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January 2004
International Architects To Inspire New Use Of Public Spaces
Wakefield Council and Public Arts are jointly hosting an important lecture in the New Year by Jan Gehl of the internally-renown Gehl Architects of Copenhagen.vThe lecture – the first of its kind to be co-hosted by the authority – takes place at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Thursday, January 8 before an invited audience. Its theme is Creating Human Quality in their City. Read more>> |
