News on Tilly-Wood Map (Streets for All)

Thank you to everyone who attended the Design Workshops at St George’s Church last Tuesday for the second stage of the Tilly-Wood community-led Street Design project.

The event was open to the public and we had local residents, school children, businesses and councillors from the local area who got involved in design workshops and shared their ideas and aspirations of how to plan their neighbourhood.

A special thanks to the guys from Adventure Aberdeen who delivered the Dr Bike Session and offered free bike advice and mini repairs for everyone’s bikes.

During the afternoon we welcomed pupils from Riverbank Primary school to find out how they travel through the area and the type of places they like to spend time in. We looked at some of the previous projects Street Design has completed and discussed the differences in change and how a place can make you feel.

The class then had the opportunity to become Urban Designers of their own area and used 3D to-scale models and materials to design Tillydrone and Woodside. We had ideas which included parks for dogs, more places to play, plants, rental bike schemes and even benches with inbuilt Wifi. Take a look at some of their plans below.

Later on we held a drop-in session for everyone from 3:30pm until 8pm to display the feedback and comments collected so far during the project. During this time we also held a design workshop for people to take the opportunity to discuss ideas with each other using miniature models and maps of the area.

If you didn’t get a chance to read our display boards you can read them here - link to display boards .

This session forms a major part of our information collection. With the comments and ideas from this event and with the background data, material and facts gathered in the discover stage we will be looking to commence forming the outline design for the area.

Over the winter and early spring we will continue to work with the design working group, the steering group, Aberdeen City Council to create proposals. These proposals will be open to your comments in March where we will hold another drop-in event and over a period of time the designs will be displayed in multiple venues and through the Commonplace website.

In the meantime watch this space for more local events in your area including led bike rides, local walks, film screenings and more. Keep checking this site for details of upcoming events or contact emily.gait@sustrans.org.uk for more information.