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      • Barnet’s Bid for London Borough of Culture

        Jan 2024
        Art, British Culture, Community, Culture, Engagement, Events, Heritage, London, Placemaking
        HemingwayDesign is working with the London Borough of Barnet to co-create their bid to become the London Borough of Culture in 2027. The London Borough of Barnet is embarking on a transformative journey in its London Borough of Culture bid, setting an ambitious course to explore and celebrate its identity like never before. Despite being […]
      • Great Levelling Up Fund news for four regeneration projects

        Jan 2023
        Coastal Regeneration, Community, Culture, Events, Festival, Placemaking, Regeneration, Town Centres
        Great Levelling Up Fund news yesterday for two seafront regeneration projects HemingwayDesign have played a key role in, a project we kick-started some time ago, and for a town we have been working in for a decade. Cleethorpes / North East Lincolnshire will be awarded over £18 million for a transformational regeneration of its seafront and town centre. This […]
      • Engineering stories and modern innovation in a heritage corner of Swindon

        Dec 2022
        Blog, Branding, Community, Design, Development, Heritage, Placemaking, Regeneration, Wayne Hemingway
        This was an interesting one for our team. Between ourselves and our friends at CTConsults, we have plenty of experience in place brands for whole towns or cities. We have experience in creating place brands for places that don’t exist yet, and for places with lengthy histories. We’d worked on heritage projects and Action Zone […]
      • NPO status for Thrift, Making and First Light

        Nov 2022
        Coastal Regeneration, Community, Culture, Events, Festival, Placemaking, Regeneration, Town Centres
        HemingwayDesign has a long and illustrious history. We are in our fifth decade now but the first Friday in November 2022 will go down as one of our proudest when three independent organisations which were set up when we were in the midst of urban regeneration projects and who we contributed to their inception and […]
      • Not so ‘rundown and dirty’ – Lowestoft: the new jewel in Suffolk’s coastal crown.

        Sep 2022
        Architecture, City, Coastal Regeneration, Community, Culture, Design, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society, Sport, Urban Design
        In 2016 HemingwayDesign embarked on a project to produce a Vision for Lowestoft South Beach, with aim to rejuvenate the seafront and help enliven the town’s leisure and tourist attractions. Labelled ‘rundown and dirty’ in a recent article, Wayne Hemingway spoke to BBC Radio Suffolk’s Sarah Lilley about ‘click bait’ culture, the reality of this […]
      • Andover: A healthy new Vision for an historic town centre

        Aug 2022
        Architecture, City, Coastal Regeneration, Community, Culture, Design, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society, Sport, Urban Design
        In 2020, working with NEW Masterplanning, HemingwayDesign completed a Vision and masterplan for Andover town centre. Our team worked closely with Test Valley Borough Council, with extensive consultation with Town Council officers and members, key employers, local retailers, and the local community to secure widespread support for a comprehensive redevelopment focused on four key proposals: […]
      • Lowestoft South Beach Vision

        Jul 2022
        Architecture, City, Coastal Regeneration, Community, Culture, Design, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society, Sport, Urban Design
        In 2016 HemingwayDesign embarked on a project to produce a Vision for Lowestoft South Beach, with aim to rejuvenate the seafront and help enliven the town’s leisure and tourist attractions. With its extensive sandy beach, two levels of promenade, seafront parks and gardens, all flanked by handsome period buildings, it quickly became apparent that Lowestoft […]
      • Skateboards vs Donkeys

        Feb 2022
        Architecture, City, Coastal Regeneration, Community, Culture, Design, Placemaking, Regeneration, Society, Sport, Urban Design
        I am not an expert on skateboarding, none of my children ever got into it, and if I were to try it I would, for certain, do myself a mischief. But I do love watching skateboarding and recognise it as an important part of youth culture and urban sport; one that’s totally durable. Now it’s […]
      • A summer of events

        Sep 2021
        Art, Community, Culture, Events, Festival, Music, Placemaking
        Everyone missed festivals and events in summer 2020, but boy did we miss them at HemDes. We’ve established and are involved in 7 cultural festivals across the country, and usually summer for us is those every weekend plus our London-based design-led markets happening around the year, making for a busy events team and a packed […]
      • Kings Cross: one of the best regeneration projects in my lifetime

        Mar 2019
        City, Culture, Developers, London, Placemaking, Regeneration, Retail, Town Centres, Urban Design
        Until now, this would’ve been met with cries of ‘bang goes the neighbourhood’. Charity shops popping up on high streets have long been seen as a sign of a town’s demise – sitting alongside pound shops, greasy takeaways and long-empty units who’s previous owners were victims of austerity, or Brexit, or universal credit, or whatever […]
      • Blackburn is Open

        Mar 2019
        Blackburn, Britain, Charity, City, Culture, Design, Economy, Events, Festival, Independent Retailing, Placemaking, Purpose, Regeneration, Retail, Shopping, Society, Town Centres
        The definitive history of Blackburn is Open and the build up to The National Festival of Making. In 2012, we had the idea to take what Blackburn had – empty shops in prime town centre locations, an open minded Council, unused evocative buildings, strong industrial heritage, successful diaspora – and embrace these assets to start […]
      • We Were Able To Create A Fashion Label Available To All – Things Aren’t So Easy These Days

        Feb 2017
        Being Thrifty, Blackburn, Design, Events, Fashion, Festival, Independent Retailing, Placemaking, Purpose, Retail, Shopping, Society, Thrift, Vintage, Vintage Festival
        A blog about how affordable rents helped us get started and how through the markets we curate we are, in a small way, helping start-ups “have a go” by providing low cost opportunities.  I grew up in modest background to the sound of whirring sewing machines and with a mum and a nan who always […]
      • Phase 1 of Dreamland Margate Finally Opens in June 2015

        Jun 2015
        British Culture, Coastal Regeneration, Design, Masterplanning, Placemaking, Regeneration
        But so much more yet to come… After 4 years of working on the Dreamland Margate project, after so many false starts and times when we thought that some of the enormous obstacles that presented themselves could in fact be insurmountable, the first phase of this amazing community instigated project is open. The June 2015 […]
      • Top Ten Regeneration Tips

        Jun 2015
        Architecture, Culture, Design, Developers, Housebuilders, Independent Retailing, Placemaking, Purpose, Regeneration, Town Centres
        At HemingwayDesign we work in a number of towns and cities that have suffered economically and socially over the past decades and I occasionally attend round table discussions or conferences in these towns that focus on regeneration. There is no fairy dust (as Oliver Wainwright said about what we do, possibly snidely, see here) to be sprinkled, […]
      • Wayne Mouths off About British Regional Confidence

        Apr 2015
        Britain, City, Culture, Placemaking, Regeneration, Town Centres
        HemingwayDesign spend most of our time working on projects outside of London, and we have always had a lot to say about Levelling Up.  For too long the media and often the politicians and the residents of regions and cities have been bemoaning the perceived dominance of London. But there is a wind of change […]
      • Legen-Derry

        Nov 2014
        City, Culture, Placemaking, Regeneration
        We love working in places that open our eyes to the world. We fell in love with Derry / Londonderry working on the team helping the city become the UK’s first City of Culture in 2013. I was first invited over to Derry-Londonderry in 2012 to advice on the build up to their City of […]
      • Hipster Led Regeneration

        Jun 2014
        Independent Retailing, Placemaking, Red or Dead, Regeneration, Town Centres
        Here we reclaim the much maligned term “hipster” and sing their praises for their contribution to regeneration.  The word hipster is much maligned. The media has helped turn a sector of young folk who are interested in new things and being a bit different – someone who in the past might have been described as […]