Activate Huyton 

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Orthographic projection of a town centre showing proposed changes.

Ideas from Young Architects in the making for Huyton Village High Street, cultivating a Future for Creative Innovation in our high streets and for Huyton Village. 

An exhibition of ideas took place 18-30th June in Huyton Village Green 2024 with a well-attended opening community and stakeholder focused event. Work showcased was that from students from 3rd year Studio Pen and Inc which responded to proposals for activation, reuse and regeneration of Derby Road, Huyton Village’s Highstreet, from its Tip to its Top.

Men and women milling at an event in an indoor exhibition space. A wooden table stretches along one side of the room covered in architectural sketches and ideas.

Five women and one man standing behind a wooden table covered in architectural sketches and ideas.

Postcards of Huyton Ideas were created and distributed at the event. 

Click here to download a catalogue of the student models (18MB PDF)

The Event and projects were supported by University of Liverpool, School of the Arts Research and Development Fund with match funding from KMBC, One Day Regeneration and Architectural Emporium.
Studio Pen and Inc proposals for 2023 2024, led by Sandy Britton, were the third pair of projects in an ongoing live collaboration with Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Architectural Emporium, UFSS research group and stakeholder One Day regeneration, critically thinking on the High Street renewal of Huyton Village.

Project propositions

  1. TIP Meeting Huyton. In semester one students, informed by carnival designers Walk the Plank designed a demountable carnival / exhibition and hub with new public realm at the tip of the high street: Huyton Station Gateway. The hub supports activities to celebrates the role of Huyton Station in the 2030 bicentenary of the birth of passenger rail travel.
  2. TOP Staying in Huyton. In semester two students worked with council and stakeholders One Day Regeneration on a reuse project to design a Multi- Function Culture Hub. It proposed re-purposing 1- 8 Derby Road adjacent to its church top at the former village heart

LSA studio Teaching team: Sandy Britton, Simon Cadle, Sian Atherton, Sarah Green, Tony Lees, with consultants Stuart Gee and Carlos Medel Vera

Student exhibition organisers: Alfred Champion, Simran Dudhrah, Carla Fry. Nathaniel Ifglesias, Ella Mead, Anastasia Smith, Emily Walker, Yunyi Wan, Siran Xiao, Junzhe Zhang 

Poster featuring an orthographic projection of a town centre showing proposed changes. Text reads