Beam - Interconnections: Contribution Through Consultation.

The Sowerby Bridge Copley Valley development opportunity is the largest regeneration
site in the Upper Calder Valley and aims to deliver significant employment and family
housing to the area. These are key components of the Upper Calder Valley Renaissance
Vision document produced following a 12 month consultation with local communities
as part of Yorkshire Forwards groundbreaking Renaissance Market Towns programme.
Sowerby Bridge, along with its sister towns in the Upper Calder Valley, were the first
to sign up to this programme and this project is a fitting outcome of over six years
of partnership working.
The Council and Yorkshire Forward believe this flagship development will be a key economic contributor not only to the Calderdale district, but also to the Leeds City Region. It will open up the riverside and create a new mixed use quarter in the town centre with high quality public realm, and improved pedestrian connectivity to the railway station.

Interconnections engaged the local community in generating design ideas for the Sowerby Copley Transformational Project. Visioning workshops and an Open Day were held with members of the local community focusing on the design of the public realm, gateways, bridges and public art. Inspirational sessions were also delivered with two primary schools from the area to explore the potential for designing and developing playable spaces within the site and evening workshops were organised with the local youth group that looked specifically at the need for hang out areas. A local college was also involved in developing potential proposals for a brand and identity for the Sowerby Copley Transformational Project.

This film documents the creative consultation process.

Filmed and produced by Access Moving Image

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[micknand1961]

The community do not want this scheme - a sham consultation was done by CMBC for part of it. The result was 26 in favour - 484 against.

look for w w w . c o p l e y v a l l e y . c o . u k without the spaces for the real story.

[micknand1961]

This video makes me feel ill - these people (CMBC etc) have led people including children to believe they are contributing to this scheme. The truth is that these meeting are sales based. The developer and the council know better - most of the meeting were at Sowerby Bridge that is not the village that is protected by the flood plain that these people want to build on.

DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF THIS PROPAGANDA for the real story search copley valley