Fearnhill Students visit Stevenage regeneration project
The Year 12 Geography students have just completed their module ‘Regenerating Places’.
As part of their studies, students visited Stevenage who are in the middle of their £1bn regeneration programme. The aim of the scheme is to deliver a mixed-use town centre reflecting the aspirations of its people, businesses, and recognising its new town heritage and spirit.
The Stevenage ‘Even Better’ regeneration project has a communications department who were fantastic. They produced a bespoke session for us taking us through their ideas, plans and hopes for the whole regeneration project. The morning included:
- Intro & brief history of Stevenage/new town,
- The need to regenerate:
- Town centre challenges
- Modernising transport
- Strengthening their science reputation
- Maximising business/education facilities
- Introducing new green spaces, nature and sustainability
- Reigniting their night-time economy
- Increasing the number of people living/working in the town
- Health / public services in the town
- How they manage our regeneration programmes
- How successful is the regeneration?
We were fortunate enough to have a tour around a number of regeneration sites in all stages, including those sites to be regenerated, those sites being regenerated and those sites where regeneration is complete, plus we went into the Stevenage Borough Council Chambers, the place where the majority of big decisions get made.
The students reinforced their learning of the topic and gained incredible insight into a wonderful, local case study.
The student’s behaviour was impeccable and they asked some very relevant and pertinent questions, so a massive well done to them.
Nick Fowler, Head of Geography
