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Transforming a Town
In an attempt to reverse its decline the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) had spent millions at the town in an attempt to kick-start regeneration through a series of industrial parks and estates...but all this effort produced little effect.
The CEO of the WDA then brough in CLC to find new ways to think about the town. CLC started by listening. They conducted an audit of just over 1% of the population of 16,000 people. This involved listening to local businesses including Sealink and Rio Tinto Zinc, to selected politicians, to professional groups such as social workers and the police to groupings of local people.
On the basis of this CLC prepared a report to the WDA and presented their findings to town hall meetings of some 350 people. The main conclusion was that 'people wanted to save their town' but their attempts had been confounded by intermecine wars between twon, borough and county.
As a result of the report and ensuing debate it was decided to set up the Holyhead Opportunity Trust with twelve trustees to oversee a range of regeneration projects under the banner of 'a much happier Holyhead'. The projects included attracting inward investment, redeveloping the inner town, projects for young people and publicising and promoting the town.
CLC fielded four consultants 'on the ground' to support the trustees and 'help deliver the projects' through collaboration with local businesses such as British Rail and Sealink (who rebuilt their Holyhead terminal). The results were impressive. The people of Holyhead were fired with a new enthusiasm and even took to the streets for the first time for a series of summer festivals and Christmas marches. Through the partnership of CLC and WDA Holyhead had started to transform itself...the Welsh office even decided to extend the A55 all the way to the town!
The Creative Manager
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