News Archive
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 and 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, 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 th 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!
