From Gold Route to Old Market Square, accolades flood in

19 March 2008
 
Nottingham and Sheffield have won 2008 Civic Trust Awards for imaginative street-based improvement schemes.

Sheffield City Council has gained the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)’s Special Streets Award for its Gold Route pedestrian trail through the city centre, which links the station, shopping areas, recently-restored city hall, business district and university campus.

Judges praised this as ‘a popular, imaginative and welcoming scheme, which leads the pedestrian onwards and highlights the heart of the city’, and stressed the contribution of access improvements, including lifts, escalators and better station links.

The architects, access consultants and landscape designers were all Sheffield City Council staff. Nottingham City Council has secured the Charcon Hard Landscaping Award and the Waitrose-sponsored CentreVision Award for its remodelling of Old Market Square, one of the UK’s oldest public plazas and the second-largest after London’s Trafalgar Square.

Judges said: ‘The previous low walls, steps and sunken areas were difficult to navigate and the remodelling now provides mostly level access.’ CentreVision is the Civic Trust’s programme for encouraging best practice in town centre regeneration. The landscape architect was London-based Gustafson Porter. The schemes are among 30 winners from across the UK, announced in Newcastle last week. There were more than 400 entrants.

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