How other boroughs do it better
The Future of the Great British Town Hall – everywhere but Ealing “There is no alternative but to talk to the representatives of the community who are actively going to participate in this [civic building] long after we as architectural practitioners have moved on to other things. The term I use? ‘Ruthlessly inclusive’” – Ivan Harbour, Senior Partner, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Town Halls are architectural icons from an era of optimism and utopia, which aimed to give power back to local communities. Whilst the buildings still carry those founding principles, there is a perception that they have lost their connection to the community and many have fallen into disrepair.Local Authorities, but not Ealing, are increasingly finding inventive ways to reverse this decline by re-imagining town halls, re-establishing them as public assets, and often successfully placing them at the centre of local regeneration and industrial growth strategies.Ealing council have closed the local town halls in the borough leaving only Ealing. Ealing borough residents were not consulted about the future of the old Town Tall and had only a brief chance to view some boards in the Broadway Centre, the done deal for Perceval House. Unlike the boroughs in this webinar our Illustrious Leader and his cabal of nodding donkeys have no vision. Senior council officers share responsibility, they are employed to adviseThis webinar shows what can be done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdMYHiW-Ev4&feature=emb_logo
Libby Kemp ● 1619d2 Comments