Ash Green Community Streets - on site!
18 Jun 2024 10:31     A+ | a-
It’s always exciting to see projects we’ve designed finally break ground - some schemes can be years in the preparation.

Master plan for roads around Ash Green school
Master plan for roads around Ash Green school


Calderdale Council’s Community Streets has now reached the build phase. It’s fantastic to see lines on the road and holes in the ground, that will become wider pavements and retrofit rain garden planters, as the streets around Ash Green school’s lower site transform into a more pleasant environment in which to walk, cycle or scoot to school.

Marking out on site
Marking out on site

Trench that will become linear roadside rain gardens
Trench that will become linear roadside rain gardens

Trench that will become linear roadside rain gardens
Trench that will become linear roadside rain gardens

Formwork for rain gardens and Eden Kerb new product trial
Formwork for rain gardens and Marshalls' Eden Kerb new product trial

Filter layer laid and ready to install check dams and diffuser flags
Filter layer laid and ready to install check dams and diffuser flags


Rain gardens taking shape with check dams and Marshalls' Eden Kerb / diffuser flags new product trial
Rain gardens taking shape with check dams and Marshalls' Eden Kerb / diffuser flags new product trials

This Halifax street is going to be transformed, things are looking great!  Following the installation of the first couple of rain garden 'shells', the team has identified a few tweaks needed that will be carried forward for the next parts of the build. This is par for the course when working innovatively to trial new products and best practice ways of doing things.

We are exicted to be trialling new rain garden kerb products from local supplier Marshalls, incorporating Calderdale residents' green and glass recycling in the substrate mix, and using plants from local Calderdale nurseries (Dove Cottage and Beardsworths). The project is working with and educating the local community, including through Ash Green school, and local organisations Slow The Flow and The Addy.

The contractor and client are responsive and proactive, and are working well together to ensure that Calderdale's first retrofit rain gardens will be a template to refer to and learn from.

Watch this space for updates as the build progresses!

Concept visual showing rain gardens
Concept visual showing rain gardens
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