»» Creating jobs - construction industry training, catering kitchen, horticultural training, bike
workshop, business units, rhubarb shed,
craft centre, support for tech start up
businesses, incubator units, hot-desking,
shared space, construction training, retail
space, market / bazaar area, beehive farm
– Bradford Honey, Bradford Strawberries,
and Bradford wine/ beer, sheltered
agriculture showing how to grow food
locally
»» Housing for specific groups of people,
co-housing, disabled people, or hostel
accommodation (international/ youth)
»» Arts and culture - space for outdoor
theatre, sculptures made from recycled
material, links with galleries and
museums, specialist weaving centre, outdoor cinema, night theatre, dance studio, DJ recording,
heritage centre; make links with other heritage centres and mills - Saltaire - Cartwright Hall Haworth tourist trail
»» Use the chimney as a huge kaleidoscope - the biggest in the world, an indoor climbing wall
»» A new school to meet the growing demand for places in Manningham
»» A fully accessible disability centre
»» It was suggested that the facade
should be maintained with an
opening onto Beamsley Road
as well as Heaton Road, that car
parking issues needed to be
addressed.
»» It needed to have a WOW factor
and the whole site had to have
an integrated feel to it, be fully
accessible and be linked to other
organisations around the area
»» Various contacts were named
which will be useful to follow up;
lots of people left their details
and we will be making a plan for
taking forward these ideas in 2014
as soon as the site is listed on the
assets transfer register and we can
apply for feasibility monies.
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