ALL LEAD ARTISTS ARE YET TO BE COMMISSIONED FOR THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS
GATEWAY TO ESSEX – A MAJOR STRATEGIC COMMISSION
Essex County Council commissioned a report by CBAT in 2005 (ref: Public Art in the Transportation Systems of Essex County Council | CBAT | 2005) to survey suitable locations for a major gateway to the County.
They have suggested a variety of possible locations, these being;
- M11 junction 8
- M25 junction 27 with A127
- M25 junction 28 with A12
- M25 junction 30/31 with A13
- Sadlers Farm new carriageway
- A120 junction with A12 at Colchester
- Harwich Port and Bathside Bay
The role of the Public Art Strategy Group is to investigate these possible locations as a future suitable site for a major gateway to Essex.
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING CENTRE, WICKFORD
A flexible and innovative Collaborative Learning Centre (CLC) serving the Wickford area is to be built on the The Bromfords Secondary School site at a cost of £3.5m. The CLC will be used by all of the primary schools and special schools in Wickford. It will be an eco-friendly building with large flexible spaces for specialist activities and state of the art ICT facilities.
SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS PUBLIC SQUARE IMPROVEMENTS
The major elements for this scheme are to develop and improve the current Trinity Square area that include aspirations for the development on the church and school sites. The opportunity to combine proposed highways work with the needs of the community offer exciting implications for the future of the town.
SPRINGWOOD DRIVE WASTE RE-CYCLING CENTRE
This is the development of a new waste re-cycling centre in Braintree that offers the commissioning of a lead artist to work with the design team and help to enhance the scheme. The entrance to the site has been pin pointed as an area of possible artistic intervention.
