KENDAL VISION - INSPIRATION FOR CHANGE IN KENDAL

“It’s the only town centre where you can get run over in a pedestrianised area” QUOTE FROM WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT (SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2019) WALKABOUTS TOWN CENTRE TO STATION WALKING TOUR Left: A reference to a comment on the walkabout when negotiating the road network walking in the town centre. KEY THEMES - JOINING THE GEMS 1. Celebrate Kendal’s assets and link them up. 2. Form a closer connection between the Station and the town centre. 3. Create a wonderful sense of arrival at Kendal station – a new civic space. 4. ‘Capture the cars’ before the town centre – creating parking locations nearby. 5. Expose the hidden gems – through urban realm improvements, history trails and perhaps a “Connected- Kendal” application – revealing special features and telling town tales! 6. Consider alternative more appropriate uses for prominent sites on important routes – for example around lower Stramongate and Blackhall Road and the BT telephone exchange Building. 7. Tame the traffic – accommodate vehicles but reprioritise the streets and spaces to make them people friendly (correlates with point 8.) KENDAL VISION 2020 | THE EVENT THAT CHANGED KENDAL 138