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The Wick Street Design Team were back in Wick recently with a 2 day festival jam packed with activities to help Wickers further develop their own design solutions for High Street.
Day 1Wick Society helped us take a look back at the town centre in the 19th and 20th centuries with images from the Johnstone Collection at the Living Library event at Wick Heritage Museum. A volunteer from Wick Society produced a short film to inspire young people from Step Forward Wick Youth to design heritage trails for the town.
Day 2Newton Park Primary kicked the day off with their vision for Wick as the future winner of Britain’s Best High Street in 2025. Later, the rest of the community joined us in a variety of design activities, taking some inspiration from Johnstone’s photographs of a time when the High Street was designed to prioritise people.
What’s Next?The project team will spend the next few weeks bringing together all of your ideas and distilling them into a handful of design proposals for you to consider. We will be back in Wick in April to show you these proposals and talk through what works and what doesn’t. You will also have the opportunity to share your thoughts online as you did during the Discover stage of the project.
In the meantime, you can view a more detailed summary of the Discover stage and email tremaine.bilham@sustrans.org.uk to let us know if there's anything we missed.
See you soon!
Wick Street Design Team