New Deal for Communities, Aston, Birmingham 2000 – 2001
Axis was employed as urban design and community consultants by Aston Pride, the community based body which successfully won £50 million of NDC money for the regeneration of this historic but deprived inner city area.
Birmingham 2000
The commission for the study of Birmingham’s Irish Quarter came from the Birmingham Irish Community Forum; the umbrella group representing Irish interests in the city.
West Bromwich 2000-2003
Axis in association with Beazer Partnerships, now Kier Partnerships, won the competition to create a new urban quarter for the Lyng.
Castle Vale, Birmingham 1995—2002
Axis have worked on the Castle Vale estate since 1995 on a number of projects from area based, Neighbourhood Strategy consultative design to the detailed design of houses, flats and bungalows.
On both the Sopwith Croft and Watton Green areas we worked from a locally based neighbourhood design office meeting with local residents on an almost daily basis as we formulated the plans for their local areas. In both neighbourhoods we worked from the basis of large scale physical models which evolved as the consultation process moved to a consensus.
Ladywood, Birmingham, Regeneration Framework 1990-97
The regeneration of this large area of inner city Birmingham, containing 2300 council houses, but also industry, shops, and schools, was managed by a partnership between residents and the City Council. Axis worked as consultants to Ladywood Community Forum, the residents’ organisation, and in collaboration with the City Council, over several years and several phases of construction, masterplanned the process of the revitalisation of the area.
Pype Hayes, Birmingham 1989– present
The rebuilding of the Pype Hayes Estate in Birmingham is Axis’s longest-running job. It was a low-rise suburban council estate built in the 1930s, of about 1400 houses. Although the houses were of conventional appearance, they were built of an untested concrete panel system, and by the 1980s it was clear that total demolition was necessary. Axis were brought in by the residents’ action group to prepare an alternative plan, which soon was accepted in place of the official one.