The Big Barnes Ponder 2 – the results!
The Barnes Town Team reported back on the outcomes of the Big Barnes Ponder 2 consultation on Monday 15 January.
The room was full and we are grateful to everyone who struggled out on a cold January night to hear the findings and to find out what will happen next. Don’t worry if you missed our report back. The good news is that you can find out everything you need to know on this page.
In a nutshell, almost 1000 residents contributed to the Big Barnes Ponder 2 process either through the online consultation or the two in-person sessions at the Castelnau Community Centre and at the Barnes Green Centre. The ideas and issues that residents shared have been grouped into six broad themes and a list of inspirational projects.
You can find the presentation from the Big Barnes Ponder 2 report back including the results here.
What happens next?
We now need to create teams of enthusiastic community activists to help us drive these projects forward. Is this you?
If you would be interested to get involved and help us deliver on these Ponder 2 projects, sign up by emailing Emma Robinson and saying which project you are interested in. Each group has a sponsor to provide guidance and support to the team. Emma will connect you to your sponsor and other team members and before you know it you will be meeting and planning.
Read on for the full list of Ponder 2 projects
One Barnes – group sponsor: Lynn McInnes
This is about bringing our community together so that wherever you live in Barnes, whether it’s by Hammersmith Bridge or in Little Chelsea, you feel well connected and well informed with access to new and creative social opportunities as well as to information about everything that is going on locally.
1. “One Barnes” Hub digital platform to improve communication, promote one village and inclusivity through sharing information
2. Banking hub
3. Men’s Shed, craft hub and friendship spaces
4. “Library of things”
5. Barnes - public realm improvements, infrastructure, street cleaning/fly tipping
6. Young People’s Ponder
7. Skate park at Vine Road – Barnes Common team
Green Barnes – group sponsor: Barnes Common
This theme is about ensuring that we maximise green spaces across our community taking every opportunity to repurpose space that is not being properly used to support our community’s environmental needs. This is also about ensuring that we are a community that leads the way in sustainability.
1. Explore the concept of the green village and identify and deliver local initiatives
2. Support Barnes Common with their flood resilience project
3. Support Barnes in Bloom with their front gardens awards
4. Plastic free Barnes – work with business and community to reduce plastic use eg plasticfreepz.co.uk
5. Promote more rain gardens eg outside Waterman’s Arms
6. Greener streets - re-introduce grass verges / wildflowers in tree pits
7. Support Barnes Community Gardeners with their work at schools and front gardens transformations
High Street Barnes – group sponsor: Emma Robinson
This theme recognises the critical importance of all our shopping parades to our community and is about working with local businesses to ensure they thrive.
1. Shop Local campaign
2. Weekly spend campaign
3. Work with businesses on “look and feel” (civic pride) in Barnes eg sweeping front of shop, shutters, illuminating signs, shop windows.
4. Digital high street – new project in partnership with MyHighStreet
Placemaking Barnes – group sponsor: Charles Campion
This theme is about improvements to the public space in Barnes capturing ideas to maximise space and to improve the look and feel of our village.
1. Graffiti wall at Barnes Station
2. Graffiti arch at Barnes Bridge
3. High Street closure for a community event
4. The View green walkway at Barnes Bridge
5. Glass river frontage at the end of the High Street
6. Small Profit Dock improvements and café
7. Phone booths removal or reuse
8. Rose House forecourt
9. Artwork on service cabinets and street signs
Safe Barnes – group sponsor: John McNeilly
Safety and security was a common theme from the Ponder and this group will explore what more can be done to ensure residents feel safe in their homes and when out in our community.
1. Work with the community and businesses to improve awareness of how we can protect ourselves and our premises
2. Work with the One Barnes team to promote use of hub to disseminate information about safety locally
3. Work with Barnes Common to clear greenery on approach to Barnes Station
4. Work with Safer Neighbourhood Teams to deliver ‘safe haven’ approach across Barnes
Travel Barnes - group sponsor: Raphael Zachary-Younger
This theme is all about how we move around our village as a pedestrian, a cyclist or a user of public transport and the services that are provided to help us get about.
1. Improve crossing outside Essex House and on Station Road
2. Address all bus travel and infrastructure for Barnes
3. Improve cycle routes (Lonsdale Road and Rocks Lane)
4. Double yellows on Barnes High Street
5. Review junction and traffic lights on Castelnau (Lonsdale Rd and Rocks Lane junctions)
6. Provide Hammersmith Bridge rickshaw/pods
7. Mill Hill safer crossing
8. Towpath resurfacing (QEW to Beverley Brook) and improved management
These inspiring words have been sent by our Ponder 2 speaker Mary Clear –
‘Kindness and community are all that matter in a year of wobbly governments and increased temperatures. Beautiful Barnes needs active citizens to shape the future’.
Find out more about Barnes Ponder 2 HERE.
