For Tyldesley commissioned Halsall Lloyd Partnership (HLP) and Reshaped Ltd to design and produce a Town Design Guide in collaboration with the local community.

A community consultation was undertaken in autumn 2020 and spring 2021 to ensure that the guide was informed by the views of Tyldesley’s residents, traders and young people. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, For Tyldesley received an impressive 895 responses from the community through a series of online questionnaires. One from shopkeepers, another from residents and the third from young people. We were delighted with the high response rate of the three groups. We would like to thank the local community for engaging so enthusiastically with this process.

Besides the youth questionnaire, a series of collaborative school workshops were conducted in partnership with Fred Longworth High School to understand how local pupils regard and use the high street, shops and town centre in general. Through an immersive visual exploration process, led by Reshaped, the children were guided and encouraged to explore all aspects of the town centre, providing a vision as to how they would improve and address existing issues and improve the town centre for the future.

The document aims to inspire the sensitive development of Elliott Street and the community’s priorities for regeneration. There are also inspiring images for shopfronts as well as a helpful Design Guide to show how properties on the high street might be sensitively refurbished in the Conservation Area. HLP we’re also commissioned to produce a Shopfront Leaflet, which is a handy mini design guide to help those looking to make alterations to their commercial premises.

Both the Town Design Guide and Shopfront Leaflet are available to view on the resources page: link.  

As part of national Maintenance Week, promoted by SPAB (The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings), For Tyldesley offered a free gutter cleaning service for any interested property owners on the high street within the Conservation Area. Owners of 13 properties on Elliott Street signed up and had their gutters cleaned by local contractor, Parklands Ltd. The contractors also conducted a photographic roof survey but found no immediate issues with the roof slates, structure or gutters. They also surveyed three additional properties that were left out due to their poor condition and budget constraints. The works were completed by the end of November 2022 and were within the £5k budget.

This gutter cleaning scheme was so popular that For Tyldesley organised a second round in November 2023. Owners of 14 further properties on Elliott Street signed up and had their gutters cleaned and roof condition surveyed by local contractor Orb Rope Access. Orb also removed vegetation from high level masonry and used lime mortar to undertake patch repairs.

Simple maintenance tasks like gutter cleaning are critical to keep any building, historic or modern, in good condition and it is important that this is done regularly to prevent damaging rainwater ingress.

Guidance on maintenance can be found at: https://www.spab.org.uk/campaigning/maintenance-matters