West Euston Partnership

Previously...

WEP ran their own Integrated Youth Project from 2000 until 2008, which developed a number of exciting projects employing community architects and media experts, community artists and local youth workers. Cumberland Market, the central open space on Regent’s park estate was a focal point for work with young people, looking at ways to make the space more accessible to a diverse range of young people. (LINK to DVD).

The design of gates that are now installed at the Cumberland market entrance meant young people could see tangible results from their design work. Some of the more challenging work over the years has included exploring the racial aspect of the use of open space in terms of areas that had become used by Bangladeshi young people and those that had become seen as for white young people. To some extent, this territorial use of open space in the West Euston area remains today although the WEP believe they have contributed to reducing this and to promoting a greater understanding between communities as well as between generations.