News Archive
Calderwood Nursery Planting Day 2009
Following our 'Pay Homage to the Heavenly Sent Land'principle, we have established a propagation nursery to grow trees for Calderwood's future landscape.
Around 60 primary 4 pupils from East Calder & St Pauls Primary Schools participated in the first Calderwood Nursery planting day on 14th May 2009.
Eventually the pupils will plant out the trees into our new landscape and each will have their own personal tree and commemorative plaque. Calderwood will continue to foster community involvement and engagement in the project- this is the first step in turning our proposals into a vibrant new place.
The pupils planted out the tree seeds they had gathered from Almondell Country Park in our autumn seed hunt, as well as helping with additional species which we sourced from a local supplier. They also planted fruit & vegetables which will be grown organically and can be eaten by the children & their families later this year.
Calderwood & Dunfermline Videos- April 2009
We've added some interesting footage from one of our Calderwood design workshops which you can view here.
We've also included a series of videos in which Peter discusses Dunfermline & its history with Lord Elgin which you can view here.
Calderwood Seed Hunt- November '08
A principal objective of the Calderwood development is its successul integration with nature and the local environment. To help promote this we are developing an on site nursery to cultivate tree species with local providence to enrich our future landscape.
By way of involving the local community we organised our first seed hunt within the Almondell Country Park with Primary 4 classes from East Calder and St Pauls Primary Schools on 12th November 2008.
As you can see from the photos below, the day was a great success & we look forward to working with both schools again in Spring 2009 to plant out the 600 conkers (Horse Chestnut) & 300 acorns (Oak) in our nursery.
We would like to thank all the children involved; the parents & teachers who accompanied the children on the day; headteachers Gerry O' Brien & Donna Stephen for their co-operation & enthusiasm; and Park Rangers Mary Konik & Kirsty Morrison who provided expertise and made the country park available for this event.
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Scottish Civic Trust Dinner
Peter Stirling promotes the SDL Design Philosophy to HRH Prince Charles.
East Calder Gala Day- Public Consultation
On the 14th June 2008 Stirling Developments hosted an Exhibition on our Calderwood Project at the annual East Calder and Wilkieston Gala Day.
We had been invited to attend and provide an opportunity for the local community to learn more of our plans and progress of our Calderwood Development.
The Gala Day, attracted around 5,000 people, and provided us with a fantastic opportunity to engage with the majority of the local population.
Often public consultations struggle to attract a few hundred people, the gala day enabled us to engage with a few thousand. Visitors to the marquee had the opportunity to meet members of the Stirling Development team, and discuss the project.
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We’d like to thank all who attended and took the time to visit our exhibition.
In addition to the Calderwood exhibition we raised over £400 for the local community by organizing a Rodeo Bull and a stall selling strawberries from Peter’s farm
Iain Stewart
Iain Stewart an acclaimed Scottish Landscape Photographer has been given the assignment of capturing the Spirit and Essesnce of Calderwood and has produced some outstanding work, here are a few examples:
To see other examples of Iain Stewarts work please go to www.iainstewartphotos.co.uk
Calderwood Design Competition
Stirling Developments recently organised a residential design challenge for 9 Scottish architectural practices.
Calderwood is a Scottish project and we want to encourage Scottish architects to engage in the project. To underscore this principal we invited a selection of acclaimed and emerging Scottish architectural practices to produce a residential design for a Calderwood neighbourhood.
The resulting work showcased a diverse range of ideas and concepts, endeavouring to respond to Calderwood's environment, while illustrating the architectural practice's vision for the residential elements of their selected neighbourhood.
WT Architecture
Graeme Massie
GRAS
Studio KAP
Paterson Architects
MAKE WTa
JM Architects Sutherland Hussey
Christopher Day visits site
Recent addition to the Calderwood project team, Christopher Day, an acclaimed environmental champion and author of seminal books such as “spirit of place” and “places of the soul”, was given a tour of the Calderwood site by Peter Stirling.
After surveying the proposed development areas, Christopher and Peter enjoyed an enchanting journey through the neighbouring country park. Christopher believes the Calderwood project has all the ingredients to indeed become a “place of the soul”.
Calderwood Public Consultation
Stirling Developments hosted an advertised Calderwood Public Consultation at East Calder's Community Centre on Wednesday 18th July 2007.
The well attended event featured a variety of show reels, fly throughs, poster picture boards and a paramics computerised model showing traffic movements.
Calderwood has a lot of support and Stirling Developments would like to thank all those who attended and took time to comment on the project.
| To view the Picture Poster Boards that were presented at the Public Consultation, please click on the following links:
NB. Each will open/download a PDF document according to your computer's settings. |
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 Draft Masterplan PDF |
 Developing an Outstanding Masterplan.PDF |
 Consultation and Participation.PDF |
 Calderwood Life.PDF |
 Calderwood Delivers.PDF |
 New Schools delivered by Calderwood.PDF |
 Affordable Housing.PDF |
 Neighbourhood Housing.PDF |
 Movement Strategy.PDF |
 Timescale and Implementation.PDF |
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The Calderwood Local Community Group
A Calderwood Local Community Group has been established to enable the Project Team to have more regular communication with the local community. The group currently comprises of 8 local representatives.
Group Members are (from left to right): Peter Stirling (Stirling Developments), Ian Jackson (Treasurer of East Calder & Wilkieston Community Council), Kenny Ireland (Land Owner in Raw Holdings area), Isobel Brydie (Lord Lieutenant), Sheena Robertson (Chair of Community Council), Mike Blackwood (Secretary of Community Council), Eddie Goodfellow (East Calder Gala Day Organiser, Ian Drummond (Stirling Developments). Not present in photograph are Karen MacBean (Local Employer) and Dr Ian MacLeod (GP).
The group meets on a regular basis to discuss all issues arising from the Development.
Calderwood Design Workshop
On the 2nd & 3rd May 2007, Stirling Developments hosted a 2 day Calderwood Design Workshop and Evening Dinner.
The event was attended by a wide and diverse group of representatives from West Lothian Council, East Calder Community Council, Affordable Housing Providers, Scottish Natural Heritage, Local Residents and Land Stakeholders, Edinburgh City Council, House Builders, University Students and the Stirling Developments Project Team.
Presentations were made by the Calderwood Design Team and Students to illusrate visions for each of the proposed Calderwood neighbourhoods. This stimulated good debate and creative input from the wide cross section of representatives illustrating the collaborative approach undertaken by Stirling Developments to produce the optimum Master Plan for Calderwood.
Calderwood Design Competition Awards
Stirling Developments Ltd would like to thank all students who entered the Calderwood Design Competition "The New Scottish Neighbourhood" as well as the judges and guests who attended the awards ceremony on the 13th February 2007.
The competition covered 3 categories: Illustration, Model and Animation and the thought provoking work ensured the Judges had an extremely difficult task choosing the award winners from the short-list. Judges included:
Peter Stirling (Stirling Developments Ltd), Wayne Hemingway (Hemingway Design); Duncan Whatmore (Whatmore Design), Lisa Mackenzie (eca), Lesley Forsyth (eca), Mary Wrenn (RIAS), Klas Tham (Swedish Masterplanner), Riccardo Marini (Edinburgh City Council), Susie Stirling (Scottish Executive), Jim Dickson (West Lothian Council), Robin Harper (MSP), Colin Cumberland (Applecross).
The winners are as follows:
- Kevin Jones - Grand Prix Winner
- Bain & Dunn - Model Category Winner
- Sigrid Pichler - Animation Category Winner
- Kamil Malek Shah - Illustration Category Winner
- Lucy Gallwey & Mandy Renshaw - Illustration Runner-up
- Community Fingers - Illustration Runner-up
Grand Prix winner "The habitation of an Agricultural Form" by Kevin Jones, illustrates a desire to allow the parallel lines of agriculture to inform the new development. In addition prominent landscape and grasscrete roads will soften the development.
One of the aspirations of the Calderwood project is to encourage and foster new Scottish talent. It's an excellent opportunity for students to get involved in a prominent live project and the project will benefit from generating fresh, young ideas.
In order for the students to get a full understanding of the project a well attended site visit was arranged!
Team Members awarded MBE's
We would like to congratulate Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway of Hemingway Design who have recently been awarded MBE's for Services to Design!
