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NEWS >>
Green Heart Partnership recieves a high commendation at the Community Partnership Awards, second place for the prestigious Best Community Partnership Award >>
With Our Ears to the Ground:
GHP complete an ambitious new cross-county project to inform community cohesion >>
A design triumph for the green spaces of Hertsmere:
Three new innovative shelters for the whole community >>
PerceptionAREA creative consultation informs the redevelopment of Oxhey Library >>
Introduction to GHP
The Green Heart Partnership (GHP) is a six year initiative across the county of Hertfordshire which began in April 2004 and is project managed by Haring Woods Studio. It is a partnership between Arts Council England, East and the eleven local authorities of Hertfordshire that aims to bring together the arts and environment sectors and collaboratively achieve sustainable solutions for the public realm. From the outset, Haring Woods saw an opportunity to make a long term difference to the working processes of local government through GHP. Using Haring Woods' core methodology, GHP builds interdisciplinary teams with professionals from a range of departments and brings artists and creative professionals to the team to instigate a creative approach to solving problems and developing achievable action plans.The Haring Woods team work with socially and politically motivated artists and teams of local authority officers to address issues and obstacles for the development, delivery and management of the public realm at the earliest possible stage. Many of the creative, innovative and high profile aspects of GHP’s projects may never have come to fruition without this effective partnership working process. It is often only through the creative and collaborative approach that crucial budget and time-saving opportunities for reallocating resources and sharing work-load are identified.
GHP has worked on a number of projects across Hertfordshire, including some county-wide initiatives. These have involved creative practitioners within local authority teams working to engage the community in a specific site, physically redevelop the public realm, or develop new local government policy about future public spaces. GHP has had a significant impact on the way that local authorities develop projects in general, and has resulted in more efficiency and closer working relationships across departments.
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Community Cohesion
Hertsmere
Community
Spaces
Building Futures
South Oxhey Library book
A county-wide Perception AREA project with artist studio Proboscis to inform Hertfordshire's community cohesion strategy.
Three permanent
shelters designed by artists Superblue in consultation with the local community.
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Working with Hertfordshire County Council to promote the county-wide sustainability guide Building Futures.
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Artists Grennan & Sperandio ask What could a library be to you? to inform the redevelopment of South Oxhey Library.
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Underneath the Arches Stevenage Town Centre Gardens Pocket Park EN10
A Perception AREA film by Rayna Nadeem about Bushey Arches which informed capital developments by artist Tony Stallard.
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Creatively capturing the community's perceptions through Perception AREA to inform the redevelopment of the Town Centre Gardens.
GHP worked with Herts Regeneration and Highways teams and landscape architect Trudi Entwhistle to develop and innovative design for a sunken roundabout.
Artist Simon Honey spent 3 months on the Wormley Estate finding out what the community wanted for a new centre through this Perception AREA project.
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Goodsyard Bridge
It's all going on
at Sele
Open Space
Clarence Park
GHP worked with Herts County Council, Barratts Homes, Chetwood Associates and artist Alisdair Currie to design a footbridge over the river in Bishops Stortford, and was completed in 2007.
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A Perception AREA film by Karen Lois Whiteread about the community centre and open space around it, in one of the most depriced araes in East Herts.
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GHP worked with a county wide team of public ream professioanls and artist Lorna Green and landscape architect Oliver Rock to "redefine parks for the 21st century", a cohesive straegy for all park users.
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Sanchita Islam creatively consulted with the community about their perceptions of Clarence Park to inform the development of its Management Plan. Delivered by Green Heart Partnership
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Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation
Artist Simon Lee Dicker worked with a officers from Three Rivers District Council to develop concepts for imaginative and creative open spaces which explored how space could cobmine landscaping, recreation and play.
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