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Chatham Intra Heritage Action Zone

We evaluated a major collaboration between University of Kent and a High Street Heritage Action Zone in Chatham. This project involves Medway Council, Historic England and private design consultants.

The School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Kent (ADP) commissioned Culture Commons to assess the impact of ADP’s collaboration on the High Street Heritage Action Zone at Intra Historic High Street, Chatham. This project sits within a wider set of collaborations between ADP and Medway Council, Historic England and private design consultants, HTA Design.

 

The HSHAZ is an ambitious £95 million UK Government-funded programme led by Historic England across more than 60 sites in England. Its overall aim is enhance the vibrancy of high streets through culture and heritage. The School of ADP contributed to the Intra HAZ through a series of live projects involving MArch and Stage 3 BA Architecture students over a four-year period.

 

The evaluation sets out details of the current (and fast evolving) policy landscape associated with culture-led regeneration and heritage development in the UK. Following an extensive period of community engagement, focus groups, workshops and 1-2-1 sessions with key stakeholders, the evaluation:


  • Considers the effectiveness of ADP’s teaching modules and identify the primary outcomes produced in terms of student learning and professional development.

  • Assesses the extent to which ADP’s involvement had an impact on the other stakeholders involved in the project, including faculty, community, local authorities, and professional consultants.

  • Highlights the key insights that might inform future collaborations between ADP and local stakeholders.

  • Sets out a series of recommendations to the University of Kent teams and wider stakeholder groups to build on the programme of work for the future.


You can download a copy of the report here:


This evaluation report is published under a Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International' - you can read the terms of this licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/


We ask that you cite this report as follows: ‘New approaches to integrated place shaping’, Culture Commons, August 2024.


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