Walsgrave Gardens

We’ve worked with our architects to produce some draft designs for changes at Walsgrave Gardens. You can view a video presentation from a member of our Property Improvements team explaining our future improvement plans. This video can be found at the bottom of this page

• Better access for pedestrians, including improved routes through the estate and more obvious ‘wayfinding’ so Walsgrave Gardens is easier to get around
• Better parking solutions so that informal parking doesn’t dominate the estate
• Better natural surveillance across the estate, with more active frontages so pathways are overlooked and residents feel safer
• Better public open spaces and more green space to improve the appearance of the estate

Our proposed improvements to car parking

Boswell Drive

• Define parking bays. This would result in around 23 bays.
• Demolish eight existing garages.
• Create driveways from Boswell Drive where car parking bays are located,
  so any reversing into and out of bays is taken off Boswell Drive. We estimate 14 car parking bays.
• Introduce planting in between car parking bays.
• Introduce access to back gardens from driveways to no 158-164 (evens) Boswell Drive

Walsgrave Gardens

• Define perpendicular car parking bays to one side (the south of the street) and parallel car parking bays to the other side.
• Introduce trees and planting between car parking bays, where no access to garages is required.
• Introduce planting to act as a buffer zone between parallel car parking bays and rear garden walls.

Our proposed improvements to outdoor areas

•  Demolish the row of 12 garages on Cumbernauld Walk and Bracknell Walk and create an area of open space including front gardens for no.2-5 Cumbernauld Walk.
•  Demolish the row of six garages alongside 81 Bracknell Walk to create a highly visible, open and pleasant street with planting and trees.
•  Demolish 81 Bracknell Walk to fully open up the area and allow visibility from Walsgrave Gardens.
• Demolish the row of five garages at the junction of Walsgrave Gardens, Peterlee Walk, Redditch Walk and Basildon Walk to provide a new, large communal green.
• Transform the existing tarmac square into a green space with planting, seating and natural play areas.
• Open up the garages under no.45-53 (odds) Boswell Drive into undercroft open car parking or additional storage for residents.
• Demolish some garages on Boswell Drive to open up Bracknell Walk, Stevenage Walk, Basildon Walk and Redditch Walk, making the area easier to walk around and allow a clearer route through to the retail park.

Timeline