Medina Yard Community Planning Weekend

JTP has been appointed by the Harrison Trust to work with the local community to create a new Vision for the Media Yard site in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Medina Yard is a significant urban brownfield site located within walking distance of Cowes town centre and occupies a highly prominent stretch of river frontage approximately 460 m in length at the mouth of the Medina Estuary. What was once a prosperous part of Cowes, centred on large-scale ship building, has now become dilapidated and isolated from the local community.

JTP led the Community Planning Weekend on Friday 1 & Saturday 2 February 2013 at the Cowes Yacht Haven and worked with the local community to create a new Vision for the site, incorporating a viable mix of uses that supports a range of active business, marine and leisure related uses and a variety of residential accommodation. The intention is to provide a distinctive place with attractive public streets and spaces, access to the water frontage and strong connections to neighbouring areas, including Cowes town centre. Following the creation of the Vision, the team will develop the proposals and draw up a new Development Brief for the site, in negotiation with Isle of Wight Council.

Following the public workshop days the team led by JTP analysed and summarised the outcomes and developed an illustrated Vision for the Medina Yard site that was presented back to the community at 7pm on Tuesday 5 February at the Cowes Yacht Haven.

Community Planning Weekend downloads, February 1-2

Community Planning Weekend flyer
Community Planning Weekend background exhibition

Report Back downloads, February 5

Report Back broadsheet

Contact

For further information, please contact Jennifer Johnson at jj@jtp.co.uk or on freephone community telephone number 0800 0126 730.