New study will put Boscombe on the map

12:00pm Thursday 21st March 2013 in Latest

BEAUTIFULLY SUNNY: The shopping precinct in Christchurch Road, Boscombe BEAUTIFULLY SUNNY: The shopping precinct in Christchurch Road, Boscombe

COMMUNITY activities, facilities and assets in Boscombe are to undergo a comprehensive study to help put them on the map.

The study, which has been commissioned by Bournemouth 2026 as part of the Boscombe Regeneration Partnership’s Backing Boscombe campaign, also aims to help boost creative industries.

Unused buildings, empty shop units and green spaces which could be used for community activities or creative businesses will all be looked at during the “community mapping” exercise.

The study will also help identify what residents want from their community facilities and help create future provision to meet their needs.

Independent consultants Valerie Stevens Associates Ltd will be carrying out surveys, speaking to people in the Sovereign Shopping Centre and holding workshops with community groups over the next three months.

Adnan Chaudry, trustee of Bournemouth 2026 Trust, said: “This will be a comprehensive study of every community facility that exists in Boscombe.

“Not only will it put existing facilities on the map but it will also help all of us working together to regenerate Boscombe to identify what community facilities are needed to meet local people’s needs.”

The study will look at occupancy rates and the extent to which the facilities on offer are used, best use of community facilities, in particular facilities to cater for young people, enterprise, art and culture and community activities, and any barriers to using the available facilities including accessibility issues.

To be a part of the mapping project, or to find out more, visit boscombemapping.spruz.com and complete the survey, or just chat and share views on what’s good in Boscombe.

Comments(24)

Redgolfer says...
1:04pm Thu 21 Mar 13

For a start you will have to translate all the info into thousands of different languages, get rid of all half way houses, all well known druggies, run em out of town, reduce rates on properties so that someone might actually rent them to sell products, get a vibrant market back to try and get more people in, other than that, blow the place up and waste more money.

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adspacebroker says...
1:05pm Thu 21 Mar 13

I think Bournemouth Council has truly put Boscombe on the map don't you? Frivolous spending on a load of sand bags in the sea and called it a 'surf reef', to name one of many instances.

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Redgolfer says...
1:07pm Thu 21 Mar 13

By the way, I was born in Boscombe just off Wallpole Road, and Boscombe will never be the same as it was, a nice place to live!!!!!!!!

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Azphreal says...
1:15pm Thu 21 Mar 13

'Independent consultants Valerie Stevens Associates Ltd' How much are they being paid to do this? What exactly is a 'creative business'? I personally feel that this will be a whitewash where they will add even the most pathetic things that they can to say 'Look how much is on offer' and how about a photo of Boscombe that was not taken during the summer and shows and average day this time of the year (not market day).

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spooki says...
1:19pm Thu 21 Mar 13

That's a lovely photograph of people wandering in the sunshine! Now let's focus on the empty shops, loudmouth fat chavs popping out children, drug addicts and alcoholics. by the way I've lived in Bournemouth 37 years and I don't go to Boscombe as it depresses me. It could be a lovely place! And it does look nice when it's summer and the sun is shining tweety tweet, fa la la la laaa, but this is Boscombe and it scares me.

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Esqui says...
2:08pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Wow, we have a new record in how many comments it takes on a story about boscombe before someone suggests blowing it up. Won't be beat.

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wonderway says...
2:13pm Thu 21 Mar 13

bournemouth council employ a regeneration officer for boscombe and she has a senior manager between them it costs 50,000 pound a year to employ them then WHY WHY do the need outside consultants. The head of this department Mike Holmes should be removed for wasting tax payer money employing consultants to do his employees job

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Onthebrightside says...
2:14pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Come on now peeps! I lived in Boscombe for YEARS (Just off Walpole), now live in Poole but would go back to Boscombe in a heart beat. I'm a professional person, who deals with the unpleasant peeps in our area on a daily basis. However, if everyone had a negative, derogatory, damning, depressing attitude and response to EVERY attempt being made by those who can, we would live in a terribly dreary world. Poor and constantly critical attitudes by those who really do have the ability to, will only set any attempts up to fail. Every area has its 'wrong-uns'..some FAR worse than Boscombe! Encourage those who are trying to change things, relentlessly. A little optimism goes a long way.

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skydriver says...
2:20pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Boscombe should have the same warning that has been put on the Reef, keep off or in this case keep out!

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skydriver says...
2:22pm Thu 21 Mar 13

skydriver wrote:
Boscombe should have the same warning that has been put on the Reef, keep off or in this case keep out!
Ops I forgot to add, purely as a safety precaution..........
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Hessenford says...
3:38pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Boscombe is already on the map,I think the film Escape from New York was based on it.

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picture90 says...
3:51pm Thu 21 Mar 13

yeah right like they'd listen to what we have to say i know many people fighting to re-open the community center and they still just want to turn it into new houses. I'd like to think that one day they might actually listen to what we have to say but no matter how many people back something the council will always do what the most profitable for them. if you want and example ... The BIC swimming pool , thousands signed that petition and still they didn't listen. i do believe its time to move ....

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Redgolfer says...
4:20pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Esqui wrote:
Wow, we have a new record in how many comments it takes on a story about boscombe before someone suggests blowing it up. Won't be beat.
I am famous but I was only JOKING !!!!!

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praelis says...
4:48pm Thu 21 Mar 13

does this mean theya re going to keep the centre for community arts that they keep trying to get rid of?

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muscliffman says...
5:09pm Thu 21 Mar 13

We are already (well) paying Council Officers to sort out Boscombe, all be it to absolutely no discernible effect.
So why are we now also employing an outside private firm to do the job? To convince us the Council actually are trying to do something?

I fear we await just another useless and expensive load of Boscombe 'blah, blah', it means nothing, achieves nothing and naturally goes nowhere near the serious core problem/s. Because of course too many people in influential places may be doing rather well leaving iBoscombe just as it is.

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politicaltrainspotter says...
5:37pm Thu 21 Mar 13

When Bournemouth Council start listening to the people of the area then something might happen.Obsessed, in recruiting consultants who have no connection or feel for the area is an insult to those who have a genuine grounds to take the area forward.

The best consultants are the people who live and work there and their give you their opinions for free and they will be accurate.

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Letcommonsenseprevail says...
6:59pm Thu 21 Mar 13

I've just checked, and Boscombe already is on the map.

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mysticalshoelace says...
9:30pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Boscombe doesn't need putting on the map it needs wiping off.

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palexgo says...
10:28pm Thu 21 Mar 13

I'm amazed it was ever called Boscombe. You need to know that in 1887 the mayor of Bournemouth had all the scum and criminals moved to the east of the town. The east was originally known as Bournemouth scum but it became abbreviated to boscombe!

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s-pb2 says...
11:35pm Thu 21 Mar 13

Letcommonsenseprevai
l wrote:
I've just checked, and Boscombe already is on the map.
I thought that too and I have the map to prove it, whats this journalist jibbering on about?

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jinglebell says...
11:07am Fri 22 Mar 13

It is extremely odd that as residents await the demolition of the Boscombe Centre for Community and Arts, the Council have commissioned this "mapping exercise" to find out what is needed. Residents and traders already know what is needed and said it very loudly in their opposition to the demolition.
About 1,000 residents opposed the demolition of the BCCA and this included a group which represents about 800 working creatives in Bournemouth and also a charity working with children that has again about 700 children registered with them.
BCCA Friends business plan for the site was for a small cinema, making more of the link with the Shelley family, who gave the BCCA to residents, so that we had a tourist attraction in Boscombe that isn't dependent on the weather. The plan was for workshops for working creatives, skills programmes, and many other programmes that residents informed them they wanted.
Are hundreds of us to stand and watch the demolition and then hear from the Council that we need a community and art centre....and then they will build one, and at a fortune no doubt?

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ab8 says...
9:50am Wed 27 Mar 13

jinglebell wrote:
It is extremely odd that as residents await the demolition of the Boscombe Centre for Community and Arts, the Council have commissioned this "mapping exercise" to find out what is needed. Residents and traders already know what is needed and said it very loudly in their opposition to the demolition.
About 1,000 residents opposed the demolition of the BCCA and this included a group which represents about 800 working creatives in Bournemouth and also a charity working with children that has again about 700 children registered with them.
BCCA Friends business plan for the site was for a small cinema, making more of the link with the Shelley family, who gave the BCCA to residents, so that we had a tourist attraction in Boscombe that isn't dependent on the weather. The plan was for workshops for working creatives, skills programmes, and many other programmes that residents informed them they wanted.
Are hundreds of us to stand and watch the demolition and then hear from the Council that we need a community and art centre....and then they will build one, and at a fortune no doubt?
It is also extremely odd that so many different numbers get bandied about when talking of support for the BCCA. Can some one please publish the actual names and addresses of these 1,000 residents including the 'working creatives' from Bournemouth (all 800)?
As to 'the Shelley family' constantly being reffered too, the writer Percy Bysshe Shelley, actually died in 1822, and never (as far as any one can tell) visited Boscombe. His son, Percy Florence Shelley, who was no writer or poet but liked dabbling in amatuer dramatics was the one with any links, died in 1889, a Baronet leaving a huge amount of money in his will. How exactly does the landed, wealthy, titled, Shelley family tie in with Boscombe then? Apart from buying a house which they lived in for half the year and putting up money for one small school there doen't seem to be much of a link. I can see why certain elements would push the Shelley conection because Percy Bysshe's writings were admired by the likes of Karl Marx, but the family hardly lived a life of poverty and equality with the masses did they!

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ab8 says...
10:29pm Sat 30 Mar 13

and the silence is deafening...what a surprise.The Shelley family
2nd Baronet Percy Bysshe Shelley died 1822, never visited Boscombe, Mary Shelley (his wife) died in 1852 before she ever lived in Boscombe,in the house purchased by her son, buried along with her parents (taken from their graves in St Pancras) in St Peter's Church yard Bournemouth, by her son-
Percy Florence Shelley (3rd Baronet) never wrote a single thing of literary merit but liked Am Dram, lived half the year in London, died a very wealthy man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Opium addict, ran away with a 16 year old (Mary)when still married, leaving behind his pregnant wife (who later commited suicide) and young child. His writings liked by various people including Karl Marx. Perhaps today he would be called a Champagne Socalist? A wealthy, titled, drug taking cheat, what a hero for some in Boscombe!
Shelley Family legacy, don't make me laugh, contribution towards one school and a house for the holidays makes them a link to Boscombe? I don't think so!

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Tom 'Boscombe' Jones says...
11:34am Wed 10 Apr 13

It was the architect that the Shelley's brought down from London to design their house who became the first town planner for Bournemouth who then designed the sewer systems and infrastructure of bournemouth. So the Shelley's are directly responsible for the creation of Bournemouth as we know it. Also the lovely gardens above the pier in Boscombe were given by lady Shelley to Boscombe, but due to attitudes such as yours these links are hidden from public gaze. As soon the school donated by them to the poor and impoverished of the parish (Bcca) will soon be lost too. Well done ab8 your cynical attitude and the like of yours will see all the UK's heritage lost to bland new build development......

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