News on Wick Street Design Project

The Explore the Design stage is closed. Here’s how it went.

The Explore the Design stage of the project, where we shared draft designs for High Street and Market Square and gathered feedback on them ran between 24th of August and 14th of September. During this time we have received over 400 responses!

Our website is now closed for comments, but you can still see everyone's contributions and the design proposals here: https://wickstreetdesign.commonplace.is/overview

Explore the Design activities

These are all the activities we have conducted to make sure we reached as many people as possible

We uploaded the designs to our website for people to be able to comment online. There were 859 visitors on the website and 207 responses about the design.

For those with limited access to technology, paper surveys with enclosed Freepost envelopes were also available at key locations throughout the town. So far we received 48 surveys with 233 responses about the design. If you or anyone you know haven’t posted the survey yet, please do so as soon as possible.

With help of Councillor Nicola Sinclair, we’ve also reached out to business owners in the project area directly with a survey and a brochure outlining the proposals.

The proposals were on display in the town centre and we created virtual flythrough videos available to view on the project website.

In lieu of our usual face-to-face events, the project team hosted a webinar on 9th September that was open to all residents and business owners. This gave people the chance to engage directly with the team, ask questions, and share their views. You can watch the webinar here: https://wickstreetdesign.commonplace.is/news/11/09/2020/exploringthedesigns

Local coverage

We’ve been fortunate to have extensive local coverage of the Wick Street Design project, from local newspapers to radio and TV including Tremaine Biham’s, our Community Engagement Officer interview on BBC Alba. Not only has the coverage been positive, but so has the public’s response to the design proposals.

Thank you for your comments

We would like to thank everyone who shared their feedback on the draft designs with us either by joining our activities or filling out surveys in paper form or online.

Your comments are very valuable to the project and will help us develop a concept design over the coming months.

What's next?

The project team is now in the process of reviewing all responses to see what changes to the design proposals we need to make according to the new comments we have gathered.

Once we have analysed all your comments we will upload a blog post with an overview of the results. We will present the updated designs at the start of November on our website. Keep an eye out on this page to stay updated!

Posted on 16th September 2020

by Kasia Koziel, Project Lead Street Design