Open spaces - Improve
Improve programme
In 2007 Peabody launched a 10 year programme of major improvements to door entry systems and to the open spaces on around 40 estates. The aim is to address residents' concerns over:
- access
- security and safety
- issues that can be improved or exacerbated by estate design
- environmental challenges such as waste management, climate change and biodiversity
Works are determined in consultation with residents on each estate, but might include soft and hard landscaping, lighting, play areas and recycling facilities. There will be an extensive period of consultation, design and development before any work starts on site.
A residents' panel is working with us to select landscape architects and contractors for the programme.
For those estates that are not part of the Improve programme, Peabody can work with residents to help secure funding for small-scale estate enhancements. In some cases we will be able to carry out the improvements through the limited capital budget.
