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Due to severe weather warning, the masterplan exhibition and activities planned for today (Friday) at the Convent Way Community Centre have been cancelled. These will now take place on Thursday 24 February from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. If you are unable to attend, we can arrange a telephone or in-person appointment.

Convent Way Regeneration

Hounslow Council and Bell Phillips Architects is working with Beyond The Box Consultants CIC to launch exciting paid opportunities for local residents on Convent Way Estate as part of the regeneration, to support the community engagement programme.

The successful candidate(s) will work with Beyond The Box to support our community engagement work, empowering residents to share their views, ideas and opinions on future plans for the estate.

The Champions will be designing a capacity building programme for residents and local community groups. We’re looking for a team of Community Champions to join the team in this exciting new role. If you are community minded, passionate about your local area and enjoy talking and engaging with people, we want to hear from you.

Role : Community Champion. Part-time (between 8-16 hour per week)

Pay : £10.85 per hour (London Living Wage): Self employed

Period: January 2022- April 2022

We’re looking for between 3-5 Community Champions to work with Beyond The Box to support us in carrying out community engagement work across the Convert Way Estate in relation to the regeneration work.

Successful candidates will support us in liaising with local charities, community groups and residents to understand how the community would like to best use a new community facility.

The Community Champions will be responsible for liaising with residents, community groups, charities, and other local stakeholders to help us discover their views and opinions across several topics, as well as working with us to design a capacity building programme consisting of training, skills exchange, study trips and more for the local community.

The next consultation workshop for residents for the regeneration of Convent Way is on the parking and street spaces.

The workshop will take place on Thursday 28 October between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the Convent Way Community Centre.

We are looking for young aspiring designers and makers (between 14-25 years of age) who live on Convent Way Estate in Hounslow and surrounding areas, to take part in our Designers & Makers competition week as part of the regenerations programme during October half term: 25th to 29th October, with a chance to win £450 and a work experience placement in a leading London Studio.

WHAT IS THE DESIGNERS & MAKERS WEEK?

During the week you will take part in a design competition to share your design ideas for a new community centre on Convent Way Estate. You will be given a brief and will develop your ideas over the week into a final design.

The winner will receive £450 and gain access to a one- or two-week work experience placement at Bell Phillips Architects, the designers who are working on the regeneration of Convent Way Estate currently.

WHAT WILL I GAIN?

You will gain the skills in how to take your ideas from concept through to a design development stage and then a final idea ready to pitch to a panel. We have brought together some of London’s leading creatives to offer this FREE skills programme and competition.

This programme will help build your CV, strengthen your university or Job application whilst you learn new skills and network with other designers and makers.

BEYOND THE BOX AT CONVENT WAY

As part of the regeneration programme, Beyond the Box is collaborating with Bell Phillips Architects, Gillespies Landscape, Atkins, and CMA Planning in Hounslow to deliver a series of community engagement events and social value programmes for residents.

Participation requirements

You must be a young person 14-25 years of age.

You must live on Convent Way Estate (or the nearby estate)

Be available between 10 - 4 pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

WHAT WILL THE WEEK INVOLVE?

Throughout the week you will work with:

Lunch, refreshments will be provided.

The RSG meetings have proven successful in the past and their contributions is valued in shaping of the new neighbourhood. The next RSG event will be an in-person workshop on Thursday 19 August 2021 at the Convent Way Community Centre. Due to covid-19 restrictions operating in the community centre the workshop will run over two sessions (afternoon and evening). Residents need to confirm, which session they want to attend.

The RSG workshop will be designing the consultation programme for the next stage to ensure everyone can get involved and decide what types of activities and information is needed over the next six months.

Activities can include exhibitions, workshops and producing brochures. Visits to other developments and specifically events that are targeted at young people, older people and disabled residents. Residents are asked to bring their ideas to the workshop.

There has been overwhelming support for the regeneration plans for Convent Way with 80% voting YES. There was a 85.5% turnout of residents, which is one of the largest turnout in a residents ballot.

The journey became more challenging along the way as the council was not able to engage and consult with resident in the way that we normally would. Over the consultation, we were able to speak directly with over 90% of residents and offer a variety of engagement options to enable them to safely engage.

This is a clear message of support and we will continue to work in partnership with all residents, so together we can transform the neighbourhood and residents' lives through the delivery of high-quality, well-designed housing and improved public space.

Next steps

We will continue to work on the designs for the new neighbourhood, develop the planning application for the whole estate and phase 1a, which will be the first new homes to be built. We expect to submit a planning application into the council by March 2022.

During the summer, the Estate Regeneration Team will hold workshops, events (online and in person) as well as regular newsletters. We will also be consulting the retail shops on Convent Way as well as the wider community as part of this stage. The Estate Regeneration Team will continue to hold the Thursday surgeries at the Community Centre between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The Landlord Offer for the regeneration of Convent Way will be published on Friday 21 May 2021 and delivered by hand to all eligible voters.

The ballot papers will be sent out on Friday 4 June 2021 and the ballot will be open until Monday 28 June 2021 at 5 p.m. A Resident can vote by post, online or by telephone using the security number on their ballot paper.

Residents who can vote are:

Council tenants who are the named tenant on the tenancy agreement on or before 21 June 2021, including joint tenants.

Resident leaseholders who are named on the lease and have lived in their home for 12 months or more before 21 June 2021.

Any resident over 16 years old who has been registered on the council’s Housing Register for 12 months or more before 21 June 2021 and is living in Convent Way as their main home.

We have considered all the feedback from the consultation on the first drafts of the Tenant Offer and Leaseholder Offer. The revised consultation documents include a section on Frequently Asked Questions and a summary of what changes or revisions have been made.

We are now working with the residents and businesses on Convent Way on the design of a better future - to provide better quality, energy efficient homes and improve the neighbourhood, alongside providing additional new homes for future residents of the estate. It is important that you get involved in shaping these proposals and give us your feedback.

Residents on Convent Way have received the Design brochure, which sets out initial ideas for the design of the new neighbourhood. Each page is looking at an area that the residents raised in their feedback at the design competition exhibition in October.

Residents will also be able to see the designs across Convent Way on large boards in different locations as part of a walking trail. Residents can go and look at them and visualise how the neighbourhood could be designed. We want residents to give us their views and feedback on the initial designs.