Making a place where people want to live and work and that delivers the benefits for the surrounding community is a complex process and the Ashton Green project team are keen to involve as many people and organisations as possible in the development of the project.
The consultation is a gradual process of engagement that has developed as the details of the masterplanning work has progressed. In April 2009, a series of technical stakeholder workshops explored the vision, key drivers, guiding principles and considered a number of emerging options with an audience of technical specialists. The work was generally well received and the detailed outcomes were fed into the work programmes over the following months.
Public consultation on the illustrative masterplan proposals was held in November 2009 in the Beaumont Shopping Centre and Beaumont Leys Library through four days of exhibitions. The outcomes from these events have been published in Consultation Statements and have used to inform the final version of the masterplan and the content of the 2010 outline planning application.
The emerging masterplan was also well received by CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) in process known as Design Review in November 2009.
Public exhibitions in support of the outline planning application were held in June and July 2010 in Beaumont Shopping Centre, Beaumont Leys Library and the Highcross shopping centre.
