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Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2023

Lancaster West Estate, Kensington and Chelsea – Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with Penoyre and Prasad, Arup, TACE et al

Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea created the Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team to work on the refurbishment of 800 homes on Lancaster West Estate. The team has been working in partnership with residents to select the architects and co-design the refurbishment of the estate itself

Winner of Community Engagement - The Pineapples Awards 2023

Community Engagement

Citizens House, Lewisham – Lewisham Citizens and London Community Land Trust with Archio Architects and Kinnear Landscape

Led by Lewisham Citizens, the campaign for affordable housing began in 2014. Once a site was agreed in 2016, Lewisham Citizens and London CLT engaged the local Sydenham community in transforming their own neighbourhood starting with this small piece of land with actions including design workshops and a community steering group

Winner of Community Engagement - The Pineapples Awards 2023

Community Engagement

Silverburn Cares, Glasgow – Silverburn with The Silverburn Forum

The Silverburn Forum has been in place for over 15 years and comprises community stakeholders, as well as Silverburn team members who have helped shape the community groups and charities that they engage with. From this meaningful engagement, Silverburn Cares was established to tackle key issues, and its Community Fund has raised over £10,000 since 2020 alone

Community Engagement

Factory Quarter, Ealing – Notting Hill Genesis with The Oracle Group

Factory Quarter in Turnham Green was completed by Notting Hill Genesis in 2010. In recent years, satisfaction levels had decreased, residents didn’t feel listened to, commercial units were vacant and the place felt unloved. Notting Hill Genesis formed a new Placemaking and Estates Team in April 2022 that redesigns the management strategy with community engagement at its heart

Community Engagement

Purley Regeneration Framework and Community Vision, Croydon – Croydon Council with Urban Symbiotics

In early 2020, Croydon Council appointed Urban Symbiotics to lead a multi-disciplinary team in developing a strategic regeneration framework for the district centre and surrounding area of Purley. To create a genuinely community-led vision, engagement included visual questionnaires, interactive school assembly workshops, digital mapping and the Purley Panel – a group of people demographically representative of Purley

Community Engagement

Left Bank Birkenhead, Wirral – Wirral Borough Council and Igloo with PLACED

In spring 2021, Wirral Borough Council published its Birkenhead 2040 Framework, a 20-year plan to revitalise the Leftbank of the River Mersey. Successful engagement was identified as key to building trust with local communities and changing external perceptions, with resources allocated across multiple projects, including co-creation workshops, pop-up shops, drop-in workshops and a central hub for the town - BirkenEd’s Place.

Community Engagement

The Great Northern, Manchester – Trilogy Real Estate with Forever Manchester

The Great Northern is a six-hectare leisure and retail site in the centre of Manchester with a public square, Victorian warehouse and 1990’s leisure complex. Managed by Trilogy Real Estate since 2015, community engagement with over 1000 participants has taken place over 7 years in workshops, surveys or 1-1 interviews

Shortlisted for Community Engagement - The Pineapples Awards 2023

Community Engagement