waterfronts

The masterplan for a new neighbourhood, Ordsall Riverside in Salford, aims to avoid piecemeal development and to create a vibrant mixed use waterfront quarter providing continued employment opportunities and riverside living. By Hugo Nowell

One of the most distinctive features of Bristol city centre is the floating harbour, which winds its way through the area to the north of the river Avon. Following the decline of the docks, during the 1960s, the city council had planned to fill in parts and build new roads over it. This important feature of the city's heritage was saved when these plans were shelved for financial reasons in the recession of the early 1970s

The Waterfront Communities Project – a learning network of nine North Sea cities engaged in regenerating their waterfronts – has concluded with the publication of a ‘toolkit’ outlining their experiences

The Cool Sea is a 180-page publication which aims to sum up the tools and methods which can be applied to waterfront regeneration tasks. Edinburgh City Council took the lead in the three year EU funded Waterfront Communities Project, working in association with Heriot-Watt University’s School of the Built Environment

The Barking Riverside development site is one of the largest previously developed sites along the Thames, covering an area of approximately 150 ha with 2km of river frontage

The Walsall Regeneration Company (WRC) formed in March 2004 to lead regeneration in Walsall and the surrounding area. It has drawn up a framework for development that sets out to transform the town over the next 10 to 15 years. This is spearheaded by eight ‘transformational’ projects which are intended to play a different role in the town’s regeneration. Each has a different emphasis, embracing the business, skills, retail, housing sectors, and form part of an interlocking jigsaw.