News on Shoreditch Park

The first phase of the Shoreditch Park Improvement Project consultation has now closed, thank you for your feedback!

It's been a fantastic month out and about speaking to people in Shoreditch, we are now busy writing a report about what you have told us you love about the Park, what you would like us to protect, the issues that you would like us to consider and the improvements you would like to see.

We'll be back in touch in the new year when the consultation summary report and corresponding design proposals are ready, the reports will be available here on Commonplace for you to see and provide feedback on. We'll also be back out and about in Shoreditch running focus groups and sessions as part of the second stage consultation to see if you like what we have come up with. Please watch this space for updates...

We'll be back in touch in the new year, but in the meantime here is a summary of some of the consultation activities and photo diary of the consultation so far...

During the consultation in October we received 460 responses online, 250 people filled in and returned paper questionnaires, and we met over 1000 local people in face to face focus groups and drop in events in the Park and the surrounding area. We worked with local primary schools to reach and hear from local children; took school councils and local residents on site visits to the Park; mapped the Park with parents and staff at Comet Children's Centre and the Adventure Playground; ran co-design workshops with art and design students at Shoreditch Park Academy; and led interactive consultation sessions with ELAAT College, the Hoxton Trust and Shoreditch Trust who helped us to reach young people and older people with SEND, access and health needs to support them to have their say.