The Green Street community will work with three award winning architects on new designs for the Queen’s Market as part of a series of events that will take place over the next two months. This will ensure that the designs for the Queen’s Market and Queen’s Square programme are shaped by local people and provide what’s both needed and wanted.
The Green Street community will work with three award winning architects on new designs for the Queen’s Market as part of a series of events that will take place over the next two months. This will ensure that the designs for the Queen’s Market and Queen’s Square programme are shaped by local people and provide what’s both needed and wanted.
The co-design events will help design improvements to the market in order to make it work better for traders and shoppers; produce ideas to make Queen’s Square more attractive to relax and socialise at; help deliver a new affordable workspace for residents and small businesses; and turn four vacant retail units into a new creative and cultural space, café and exhibition space for the local community.
Rokhsana Fiaz, Mayor of Newham, said: “Listening to people first is always the best way to make improvements which benefit the community and that’s why we have a co-design process, so that local people’s needs, experiences and hopes influence the plans for improvements to Queen’s Market. On my most recent visit to Queen’s Market I heard from traders and shoppers about their ideas for the future. I look forward to seeing creative and original design solutions that reflect what the community needs coming out of the community co-design process.”
All the design teams will be at the Newham Unlocked festival on Saturday 16 October from 10am to 5pm, so this will be a great opportunity for local residents to come down, find our more and participate in the co-design activities. There has been a regular market stall for conversation and crafts, and first of all the events will take place tomorrow at Queen’s Square, using furniture to test how this public space could work.
View more details about all of the free events and the projects.