Shaping the future through open conversations
My Castle Gateway has always been keen to work with neighbours of the development area, so we got into conversation with Greg McGee of According To McGee on Tower Street. Greg had been working with a group of young people, taking an irreverent look at the city’s heritage and posing alternative futures. We suggested they … Read more
Gathering with Water: Look at Your City walk Virtual Tour Thursday 25th July 2019 How can water be welcomed in the design of the new public space in the Castle and Eye of York? Whether that is dealing with flooding, encouraging use of the Foss, referencing past moats and river defences, or adding in playful … Read more
I’m dyslexic and for me this means it’s often easier and quicker to share my thoughts through images rather than words. I was very happy then, after participating in one of the My Castle Gateway project’s ‘Gathering Place’ events, to be asked to create a visual blog … I have no idea what one of … Read more
Creativity of Heritage: Debating the Castle and the Eye of York Neil Redfern, Principal Inspector for Historic England in Yorkshire Saturday 20 July 2019 Heritage isn’t fixed, it isn’t just old buildings, it isn’t all about the past – it’s a way of debating what matters to us today and how we value it. … Read more
13th July 2019 As part of the summer Gathering Place discussions, we’ve planned five Look at Your City walks. The walks use what we can see already in York as a resource for thinking creatively about the new public spaces in the Castle and Eye of York. Ten of use explore Parliament Stree, St Helen’s … Read more
Over the first weekend in July, the My Castle Gateway team took to the pavements and have been touring, with residents and visitors, around the area of The Castle and Eye of York. Walking and talking, those who joined us have been discussing the future potential and plans for the area in and around the … Read more
At the heart of the Castle Gateway area is York Castle Musuem, based in two the most important buildings of the area, the Debtor’s Prision and the Female Prision, nestled in the only remains of the Norman Castle walls and housing outstanding collections exploring the everyday life of the last two centuries. Chief Executive Reyahn … Read more
On 1st and 5th June My Castle Gateway ran two events focused specifically on the applications for St George’s Field Multi-storey car park, Castle Mills Apartments and the new bridge over the Foss. Below is a report which links together specific feedback from these June events and the earlier events exploring the applications in March. … Read more
We’ll be launching Gathering Place on 6th and 7th July. Then we’ll dive into the specific issues and challenges of creating a new public area in the Castle and Eye of York. We’ll do that through five themes, each with a fortnight to chew over the issue. Each event will be documented and key issues … Read more
History is not just a list of facts. History is interpretation, debate and discussion. But the list of ‘facts’ for the Castle and Eye of York is pretty impressive, shocking and important. In this series of three blogs – published to launch in the Gathering Place summer programme – we look at the potted histories … Read more