Project Updates

We are excited to be moving into the delivery Phase of Community Street. Thank you to everyone who has given input so far.

Our local communities and interested parties came up with a total of 29 project ideas across the estate. These were costed at more than double our available budget of just over £2 million. The scope of these projects has been adjusted so that we are able to include as many as possible and we will begin to deliver these in phases. Please check below for regular updates as we reveal the 13 projects to be carried out.

Strip out work will enable us to enable the quantification of the salvageable existing materials and confirmation of the scope for their refurbishment, as well as the identification of any further surveys and investigative works that may be required. This will allow for more robust and accurate measurement within the tender pricing document, reducing the risk of variations once in contract, and for the designs to be sense checked and adjusted as required subject to the conditions found.

Reopening of Acklam WC's

Refurbishment and reopening of existing public WC's.

The existing WC's are being stripped out as of the

week beginning Monday 26 September.

This work will last 4 weeks running from

Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm.

See the plans

New benches at Maxilla Gardens

3 new picnic style benches with concrete bases were installed on the week of the 18th of October outside the Bay20 Community Centre in Maxilla Gardens.

Improvements to Pear Tree Walk

Work will commence in January 2023 and will consist of:

Resurfacing across Pear Tree Walk and outside the Westway Sports Centre
Re-planting
Installation of new benches
Installation of drinking fountain

Acklam Hoardings

Local schoolchildren from Kensington Aldridge Academy created a new artwork going across the full length of the Acklam Village hoardings which highlights African and Caribbean countries using their flags and positive words that surround them. Work started in November 2022 and was completed by February 2023.