muf architecture/art

NEWHAMSTRATEGY

Security Mobility Pleasure

Client NDC West Ham and Plaistow.

Budget £5.5m

2001-2002

The adopted framework is a strategy for capital investment in urban improvements. The framework principles of Security, Mobility and Pleasure are deployed through physical improvements that are supported by sustainable mechanisms for management and community involvement. This is achieved by redefining the limits that constitute public space and so concentrate investment where there already exists a degree of informal surveillance and management i.e. on the boundaries of schools, the cemetery and health facilities – ensuring that schemes which would normally be considered too rarified and vulnerable become viable. The study includes a full cost benefit analysis in reference to the delivery plan and transport study. The Framework has in turn levered 31 million of external funding. muf are commissioned to implement a number of the identified projects.

Currently awaiting planning permission: the Memorial MUGA and Mounding over the Greenway.