The Super Slow Way Linear Park
- Location
- UK
- Client
- Super Slow Way
- Expertise
- Landscape Architecture
- Building Services Engineering
- Lighting
- Size
- 37,015 m
BDP is designing a new vision for The Super Slow Way Linear Park in East Lancashire - an exciting, pioneering programme of change for a 23-mile section of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
The Super Slow Way proposes landscape strategies to imagine an exemplar, world class post-industrial, natural linear park destination, to excite visitors and residents through intuitive and connected landscapes, that replenish the precious green and blue spaces of this great waterway. Working with partners across the 23 miles of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal corridor stretching through East Lancashire from Blackburn in the west to Pendle in the east, BDP’s ambition for the Super Slow Way focuses on convenient and enjoyable green routes that connect streets and neighbourhoods to the canal side; targets the ecological relationship between species, food source and habitats, and connection between communities through visual aspects of wayfinding, communicating identity and information. The Super Slow Way is a special place shaped by industry and the families and entrepreneurs that left behind a legacy of great industrial relics. Knitting together the fabric of communities in this way will deliver huge rewards.