CORBY | Projects & Construction

[dinp]

Corby is a town in the East Midlands (Northamptonshire) with big plans. With approximately 55,000 population, the aim is to double this to over 100,000 by 2031 and to completely regenerate the town in the process. Big developments currently under construction or on-site include:

- 50m Olympic-size Swimming Pool
- New Civic Hub
- £35 million Willow Place shopping development - www.willowplace.co.uk
- The Foster and Partners designed Corby Academy - www.corbyacademy.com
- Little Stanion, a development of 970 new homes
- Stanion Lane Plantation, a new national distribution centre/rail freight terminal
- Oakley Vale, a residential development of approx 3,000 new homes - www.oakleyvale.com

(last updated 10.07.07)

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These pictures are from the planning application for the new Corby Cube, a civic building that will comprise... well you'll see in the pictures. If approved, work is due to start on site in Spring 2007 with completion scheduled for 2009.

The application isn't just for the building itself, its also for extensive improvements to the public realm as detailed in the pictures....







Here's the phased landscape plans



This is the masterplan for Corby Town Centre and shows the location of the cube (marked as 'HUB' on the map) in relation to the rest of the town centre.


Directly opposite the Cube site, work is already ongoing at the new Willow Place shopping centre (marked on the masterplan as Retail Phase 1). Completion is scheduled for October 2007 and will transform the town centre from this...



To this...




There's a webcam on www.willowplace.co.uk which is updated every ten minutes.



The Cube application will shortly be joined by an application for a new Olympic-standard 50m swimming pool. The striking design for the new pool has been drawn up by S&P Architects, the practice responsible for the Manchester and Dublin Aquatic Centres. They are also supporting Zaha Hadid Architects in the design of the 2012 London Olympic Swimming Pool. A larger render to follow, but this is what it will look like...


For more information on the regeneration in Corby, Check out http://www.moreincorby.co.uk/northamptonshire/

[LDN_EUROPE]

The cube part looks excellent!

[Erebus555]

Cube looks great. I cant believe Corby is to get an Olympic sized swimming pool and Birmingham hasnt already. Instead we have plans for a temporary water tank... Oh the possibilities

[Prestonian]

Looks like some really good proposals, especially liking the cube and in particular the attention that seems to have been paid to the landscaping with that stripy path. I think people always underestimate good landscaping, the coventry phoenix initiative is a really good example of what it can help to do.

[dinp]

I'm pretty impressed, especially with the Cube project. The massing is spot on, the linkages to other parts of the town centre has been thoroughly thought out and it is complimented by what seems to be high-quality materials, two small wind turbines and excellent landscaping.

The Willow Place development is also welcomed as it will create a new shopping street, will bring retailers to the town that Corby has never has as well as seeing the return of some retailers who have been absent for a number of years (Burton/Superdrug). The design is less impressive than the cube and CABE gave it a bit of a slating, but for the first phase of regeneration of the shopping centre, it can't come a minute too soon and it's certainly not bad looking.

[Biosonic]

Lovely!

[dinp]

As promised, the larger renders of the new Olympic-size pool (approx 18m in height)

[dinp]

Missed this one...

[The Longford]

Thought this was as good a place as any to post this!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6215566.stm

Corby tops 'yob map' of England

One in two people in Corby believe anti-social behaviour is a problem
The Northamptonshire town of Corby has been named the "yob" capital of England in a spending watchdog report.
The National Audit Office used official figures to assess residents' perceptions of anti-social behaviour.

Analysis of the data suggested 48.8% of adults in Corby believed bad behaviour was a problem.

The study also suggests 17% of the population across England thought there were high levels of anti-social behaviour in general.

As part of its report The Home Office: Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour, the National Audit Office (NAO) said the percentage of people who believed anti-social behaviour was a problem had risen from 16% two years ago.


The worst 10 towns and cities
Corby 48.8
Mansfield 44.4
Hackney 42.7
Nottingham 42.7
Luton 42.7
Slough 42.0
Ashfield (Notts) 41.2
Knowsley (Merseyside) 39.2
Middlesbrough 39.3
Easington (Durham) 38.9
Percentage of adults who think anti-social behaviour is a problem

The survey of all English local authorities suggested almost one in two people believed so-called "yobbish" behaviour was a big or fairly big problem in Corby.

Corby Borough Council said it was responding positively to the report.

Council leader Pat Fawcett said: "It would be easy to say 'yes it's unfair' and pretend we're the victim, but we've take on board any criticism and want to move forward.

"It gives us a point where we can see what we did then - three years ago - and compare it with what's happening in Corby now.

"So we're really looking at this report to see the differences. It's a benchmark for the borough."

Inspector Gary Williams, the area commander, said some people were less tolerant of youngsters than they used to be - children playing football in the street were now perceived by some people as anti-social.

Bristol was named as the place with the fewest perceived anti-social problems with only 5.7% of residents describing it as a big or fairly big issue.

In second-best place was Staffordshire Moorlands, the area around Leek.

Mansfield in Nottinghamshire was second worst with 44.4%, then Hackney in east London and Nottingham, both with 42.7%.


The best 10
Bristol 5.7
Staffordshire Moorlands 6.0
Basingstoke and Deane 7.4
Wolverhampton 7.5
Leeds 8.9
Winchester 9.6
Sevenoaks 9.9
City of London 10.2
Richmond upon Thames 10.6
Blaby 10.8

Luton - the Bedfordshire town voted the worst in Britain in an online poll two years ago - came fourth with 42%.

The report also suggested about 55% of anti-social behaviour orders had been breached.

The Asbos were either breached by offenders committing more offences or by breaking the terms of the order.

The NAO said 35% of Asbo holders breached the order on five or more occasions, but the average number was four per person.

The government said the findings did not mean Asbos were failing.

[dinp]

This is Projects and Construction, this kind of story belongs on the Skybar you pleb.

[The Longford]

Originally Posted by dinp

This is Projects and Construction, this kind of story belongs on the Skybar you pleb.

You dont have to get all defensive of your fine town. I just couldnt find a thread called Corby's Social Problems (or any other thread about Corby come to that!) so just stuck it in here. I didnt think it deserved its own thread to be honest - just thought you may be interested. I was obviously wrong!
It wasnt meant as a personal attack - if you read deeper it is actually about the 'perception" of yobbish behaviour and in fact in many respects crime in Corby has dropped. Corby is on the up! I'm expecting an Olympic bid any day soon!
I'll know better than to post an article about Corby in this thread in future.

...and i forgive you for calling me a pleb because as it happens i am one.

[Monters]

Originally Posted by dinp

Those big stand-up cutout letters are straight out of the best of the fifties, as well.

See my signature friends - 1959 returning

[dinp]

Originally Posted by The Longford

You dont have to get all defensive of your fine town. I just couldnt find a thread called Corby's Social Problems (or any other thread about Corby come to that!) so just stuck it in here. I didnt think it deserved its own thread to be honest - just thought you may be interested. I was obviously wrong!
It wasnt meant as a personal attack - if you read deeper it is actually about the 'perception" of yobbish behaviour and in fact in many respects crime in Corby has dropped. Corby is on the up! I'm expecting an Olympic bid any day soon!
I'll know better than to post an article about Corby in this thread in future.

...and i forgive you for calling me a pleb because as it happens i am one.

I have no objection to you posting the article, its just in the wrong place. It was a topical news story that day that could have made a very good skybar thread for anti-social behaviour and ASBOs to be discussed.

[dinp]

Originally Posted by Monters

Those big stand-up cutout letters are straight out of the best of the fifties, as well.

See my signature friends - 1959 returning

Its a new town so the element of fifties wont do any harm

[Andrew]

I like some 50's design, it tends to be modernist but not heavy brutalist like in the 60's.

The designs seem to all be quite modernist and well suited to a new town.

[AndrewC]

Didn't they just knock down a load of cubes in corby town centre?

[dinp]

Originally Posted by AndrewC

Didn't they just knock down a load of cubes in corby town centre?

Close, it was mainly concrete crap slab blocks. Cuboids one may say

[Telfordboy]

Ah another New Towner. I've not been to Corby before how big is it? whats it like? is Telford better?
We should start a New Town but not including Milton Keynes thread.

[dinp]

Its about 53,000 people, is a former steel town that is undergoing a massive regeneration programme which will see the town double in size by 2031. Not sure if its better than Telford as i've never been but I have heard of one of the estates (woodside?) as we are taking lessons from there in regenerating one of our Radburn estates...

[Telfordboy]

Yes its Woodside, I didn't realise it was that (in)famous. That is the worst area of town. I wish I had a time machine I would go back to the 1960s and slap TDC's planners untill they realised that forcing people to live in rabbit warrens was a stupid idea. I struggle to see how anyone thought that the Radburn principle was a good idea.

Telford has about 160,000 people and is the 2nd fastest growing town in England apparently.
She is home to the a world heritage site at Ironbridge which was the worlds first iron bridge and the area that Telford now covers was the Birthplace of Industry, but don't tell anyone from Manchester that because they all think that Manchester was.