A public exhibition at Carlisle Racecourse is set to provide an opportunity to help shape two major projects in the city.
The event, to be held on Tuesday October 19, between 10am and 7.30pm, has been organised by Carlisle City Council and Cumbria County Council.
It will showcase the St Cuthbert’s Garden Village and Carlisle Southern Link Road schemes.
Setting out their progress as well as providing the chance to comment on draft designs for a new Greenway and Park, the centrepiece of St Cuthbert’s Garden Village communities in the south of Carlisle, and also influence the design of some key features along the CSLR route.
The exhibition will include graphics and images showing potential options for planting, landscaping and some artwork proposals for roundabouts and other areas. The CSLR team will also provide information on the project programme and when people can expect to start seeing progress on the ground.
As part of the St Cuthbert’s Garden Village exhibition, the designs by the three finalists selected to go forward to the next stage of Start with a Park landscape competition will be on display.
Carlisle City Council, in partnership with the Landscape Institute, launched the two-stage design competition earlier this year and received 13 professional entries. The following three finalists have been selected:
- The Greenway Ribbon – Gillespies.
- St Cuthbert’s Monastic Gardens – AFL Architects.
- The Weave – BMD and JTP.
All three finalist’s submissions will be showcased at a public exhibition at Carlisle Racecourse on Tuesday 19 October. Information is also available at https://competitions.landscapeinstitute.org/st-cuthberts/
Carlisle City councillor Paul Nedved, portfolio holder for economy, enterprise and housing, said: “St Cuthbert’s Garden Village is one of the largest projects of its kind nationally and the largest in the north of England. The scale and location of St Cuthbert’s Garden Village (SCGV) provides a genuine opportunity to make a difference – in a well-planned and coherent way.
“Start with the Park – to be based near Durdar and Blackwell – is an opportunity to create a resource that could be a visitor destination attraction in its own right and will benefit the existing and future residents of Carlisle.
“By establishing the Greenway at the outset of St Cuthbert’s Garden Village, a greenspace will be created at the heart of the community and will be a unique selling point. It will also connect the proposed new communities with each other, with existing villages in the area, with the city, and with the surrounding countryside.”
The Greenway also provides an opportunity to look at new ways of delivering cycling and walking infrastructure in Carlisle to encourage recreational and active travel. A key element of this will be ensuring that this connectivity is both within and beyond the garden village – in particular ensuring active/sustainable transport connectivity to the city centre and the transformational regeneration projects within the southern gateway area such as the railway station improvements, new university campus and business space at the Citadels and Caldew Riverside.
Cllr Keith Little, Cumbria County Council’s cabinet member for highways and transport, added: “The Carlisle Southern Link Road is absolutely vital to not only the garden village project but to the wider economic benefits it will bring to our county.
“I’d encourage everyone to attend the event at the Racecourse to hear more about the road from the project team and have your say on some of the proposed placemaking enhancements along the route so that together we can make the scheme the best it can be, shaped and influenced by local people’s views.”
