The My Place Awards celebrate community-led built environment projects that have transformed their locality. Learn more about the 2016 entries below!
My Place Awards: 2016
Pollokshields Playhouse
Pollokshields Community Council
Glasgow
Located on a stalled site opposite the Tramway, the Pollokshields Playhouse came about as a result of concerns by Pollokshields Community Council (PCC) about the Turner Prize coming to Tramway and how this would reflect on both Pollokshields and Glasgow given the rundown surroundings. The PCC had been pressing Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Life ...
Sanday Heritage Campus
Sanday Community Council
Orkney
A description of the three-part ‘Heritage ‘Campus’ on Sanday, Orkney, Scotland 1. Sanday Heritage Centre Sanday’s 1894 Temperance Hall, latterly the Community Centre, held fond memories for several generations of islanders; but in the 1980s consensus was reached that all of the island’s leisure activities should be relocated to a renovated Community School. Public meetings ...
Stonehaven Clock Tower
Aberdeenshire Council
Aberdeenshire
The Clock Tower in Stonehaven is a Category B-listed structure located in the Old town near the harbour. Erected in 1790 the property is a single-bay square tower rising through 4 floors and terminating with a lead-clad spire. The Tower is an important landmark within the Old Town, forms part of the historic skyline of ...
The Cally Temple Project
Forestry Commission Scotland
Dumfries & Galloway
Over the last eight years the Gatehouse Development Initiative (GDI) in partnership with Forestry Commission Scotland has been raising funds to carry out projects to conserve and restore aspects of the Designed Landscape of Cally, on the outskirts of Gatehouse of Fleet. In September 2011, A C Wolffe & Partners were contracted to carry out ...
The Ecology Centre
The Ecology Centre
Fife
The Ecology Centre is a successful local charity that provides ground breaking environmental education, volunteering and conservation activities that benefit both our community and the environment. In 2014, they purchased 5 acres of land on the shores of Kinghorn Loch and in 2015 developed a purpose-built Centre for their work, thanks to funding from the ...
The Fisherrow Centre Redevelopment Project
The Fisherrow Centre
East Lothian
The proposed project is the refurbishment of The Fisherrow Centre, a community centre based in Musselburgh town centre which provides a range of social, welfare and learning opportunities for the local community. It also provides low cost office accommodation for local charities including Fisherrow community nursery school, Borders Scrap Store recycling project and a learning ...
The Ness Play Park Project
Fife Council
Fife
The main aim of the project was to improve upon the current play facilities at The Ness for the benefit of both local families and visitors. There had been major extensive improvements to the coastal pathway beginning at The Ness but the play area had not been upgraded for many years. The Play Park consisted ...
The Riverside Heather Collection
The Gannochy Trust
Perth & Kinross
The Riverside Heather Collection Perth has been delivered by the dedicated efforts of the Beautiful Perth volunteers, whose objectives are to make Perth a ” better place to live, work and visit “. This valuable public realm feature was partially as a result of the demise of the popular Cherrybank Gardens Heather Garden in Perth ...