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1. Background information 1. Introduction: Bournemouth Borough Council invites professional artists, architects and designers to submit bold and dramatic concepts to reinvent a row of four new beach huts, designing them to meet the needs of a wide range of disabled beach users. This unique scheme will contribute to create the best disabled accessible beach facilities in the UK, enabling many new visitors to enjoy Bournemouth's award-winning seafront for the first time. The new huts will become iconic symbols of the renaissance of Britain's seaside resorts, matching high quality design, visual flair and unique function. Page 1 Queens Park Bournemouth Town Centre 1 mile Beach Hut Location Boscombe Pier M27 / M3 to London A338 Wessex Way Kings Park Boscombe Overstrand Artificial Surf Reef Cooper Dean Flyover Littledown Pokesdown A3060 Castle Lane East A35 Christchurch Road Iford 2. Boscombe Spa Village: Recent multi-million pound investment in Boscombe Seafront is creating the most anticipated and innovative beach development in Europe. This has seen the construction of Europe's first artificial surf reef, renovation of the iconic grade II listed 1950's Boscombe Pier, 'Reefside' café, renovation of the Overstrand 1950's promenade building to incorporate stylish 'Beach Pods' interior designed by Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway, 'Urban Reef' a high quality restaurant with panoramic views, surf school, board hire and retail units. A piazza has been created in front of the pier, with landscaping by the in-house Landscape and Technical Team alongside public artwork by artist Simon Hitchens. A new seafront community of 169 apartments located along the cliffs overlooking the surf reef has also been built and the Neptune Pub on the promenade by Boscombe Pier refurbished. Boscombe seafront celebrates contemporary surf lifestyle, iconic postwar coastal architecture and traditional family seaside pleasures along miles of soft, golden sandy beaches. Established as a Victorian seaside resort in the 1880s, Boscombe is currently emerging from 30 years of decline and social deprivation following sharp changes in UK tourism industry in the 1970s. It has a vibrant community and forms a suburb of Bournemouth, one of the UK's top seaside resorts attracting over 5 million visitors per year, located within 2 hours easy access of London.
Bournemouth Borough Council in partnership with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and support from Public Art South West (PASW) seeks to further extend economic regeneration of the area through a series of bold public art and design commissions collectively titled the Boscombe Sea Change scheme. 3. Bournemouth and its beach huts: Bournemouth is home to the most popular beach huts in the UK. Today, over 1,800 huts line five and a half miles of promenade. The huts are simple affairs, mostly made of wood and featuring nothing more than a gas stove to make cups of tea and four deck chairs inside. No power. No running water. And no over-night sleeping. Nevertheless, demand for huts remains insatiable, with 10 year closed waiting lists to acquire an annual hut licence. Many huts are available for casual hire on a daily or weekly basis as well. At the other end of the scale, chic 'Beach Pods' with running water and electricity have been interior designed by award-winning Hemingway Design. These are located opposite Europe's first artificial surf reef and will shortly be offered for sale. The site - c.1900 The new accessible huts featured in this brief will be made available to disabled beach users, primarily for casual daily or weekly hire. Why do people love beach huts Many reasons, some peculiar to our national character. They appeal to quirky independent spirits. We name them and call them home from home. They can be places to day-dream in or entertain friends. We get changed in them, store our beach toys and surf gear in them. Sunbathe outside them. Every seaside town has its own interpretation of the beach hut, a local vernacular evolved from nineteenth-century wheeled bathing machines. The Bournemouth beach hut has remained unchanged since Borough Engineer F. P. Dolamore laid down design rules around 1909. The site - 1930’s Page 2
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