Places are about people - and we are monitoring the stories of the creation of many of our DG projects through these 15 case studies.

Evaluating Doorstep Greens through stories

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These case studies, written in March 2003, look at how a community planning to create a Doorstep Green hope to tackle a wide range of social and physical problems.

Each case study was revisited in April 2005.  Click here to see the updated case studies.

To read the case studies (in Adobe PDF format), please click on the links below. We're also keen to hear your feedback on these case studies and any of the issues they highlight.  

1 - Tackling Crime and Drug Abuse - Clifton Place Community Garden in Bristol (173kb pdf)

2 - Working to reduce vandalism - Palace Road Gardens project in Camden, London (219kb pdf)

3 - Improving access - Surfleet Recreation Park (209kb pdf)

4 - Making links to other facilities - Ockment, Okehampton (143kb pdf)

5 - Dealing with a lack of urban green space - Weavers Green, Coventry (208kb pdf)

6 - A new group coming together - The Spinney in Cornwall (198kb pdf)

7 - Reversing the decline in rural services, Epping Upland, Essex (215kb pdf)

8 - Purchasing new land for a green, Aston Green in Herefordshire (259kb pdf)

9 - Providing a greenspace for the community for 99 years: Kirkby Thore Doorstep Green project in Cumbria (172kb pdf)

10 - West Grange Doorstep Green project in Leeds, where the local authority and the local community group have signed up an agreement to work in partnership together (199kb pdf)

11 - Peter Pan Park in Islington, where the community has to work hard to include minority groups in their Doorstep Green project (206kb pdf)

12 - Gamesley Doorstep Green in Derbyshire - forming a link to the wider countryside (125kb pdf)

13 - Hawthorn Road Doorstep Green project in Bacup, Lancs, where crime and vandalism has been a problem in the past (166kb pdf)

14 - Scotland Gate community group whose Doorstep Green project aims to tackle antisocial behaviour and crime in the area (127kb pdf)

15 - Carter Park community group who are trying to get old and young to work together in creating their Doorstep Green (184kb pdf)