Project: Chimney Pot Park
Place: Salford
Subject: Collective identity and creating places
Terraced housing reached its apogee in about 1820, when builders began putting up row upon row of simple houses for workers flocking to the cities for jobs in the new industries, thus the majority of terraced streets remaining today hail from the late 19th Century. Prevalent heavy industry in the North of England means that terraced housing is a common feature of a northern city landscape and was perhaps cemented as an iconic northern feature by the ITV soap ‘Coronation Street’.
Urban Splash is a development agency. One of the company’s recent projects is working on a Salford regeneration scheme with architect ‘shedkm’.
The development focuses on terraced houses in the Seedley and Langworthy area of Salford. Langworthy was built on the infill site of a former reservoir which is elevated above the houses of Seedley, this led to the local community referring to the area as Chimney Pot Park. Using this local reference Urban Splash called the redevelopment ‘Chimney Pot Park'. The development works with the existing environment and urban forms in the area to develop a new attractive and desirable neighbourhood. They have developed a new modern internal layout and design for a terraced housing block whilst retaining original street frontages which embody the area’s historic character. The number of homes on the street has not been reduced. See the Urban Splash website and Wonderful North video footage for more information on this regeneration scheme.
http://www.urbansplash.co.uk/chimneypotpark/
How do regeneration schemes affect the identity of a place? Compare Will Alsop’s masterplan for Middlehaven with the Urban Splash regeneration project Chimney Pot Park in Salford.