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Teamwork Triumph
Attwood Green regeneration project in Birmingham has won the Deputy Prime Minister’s Award for Sustainable Communities 2005, beating three other finalists. Attwood Green pipped Springhill Co-housing Community in Stroud, A New Deal for Braunstone in Leicester and Taking part in Gravesham in Kent to the post, to triumph in the prestigious competition.
John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister, said: “The successful regeneration of Attwood Green shows what can be achieved when people come together to improve their local environment and turn a formerly run-down estate into an exciting and attractive place to live and work. Crucial to that success is the involvement of the local residents who can feel justifiably proud of this great achievement.”
The landscape elements of the Attwood Green scheme played a huge part in the overall success of the project. Jonathan Webster, principal landscape architect at Birmingham City Council’s Landscape Practice Group, talked to Vista. Discuss this article
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