Your Community Hub, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

Your Community Hub

by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

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numan009 My Calm. My Reset. My Stability. Favorite track: A New Town With an Old Sense of Community.

sgrizam79 When will I receive my order? I have been waiting for months and I want to receive my LP...(

kittog there's something stressful and gloomy about this... it feels like the exact soundtrack of your daily life in a busy city that moves far too fast for you to keep up. Favorite track: Rapid Transport Links.

Mark R Bebb My new love 🫶🏽

James Another great release from GC-F. He manages to evoke a sense of optimism these spaces were designed for while they slowly decay (if that makes sense). Favorite track: Facilities For All Ages.

this is wonderful stuff. Slightly darker than previously, with some quite ominous feelings, but strangely optimistic. I think this will be playing a lot!

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1.	A Shared Sense of Purpose 05:25	buy track
2.	Rapid Transport Links 06:14	buy track
3.	Cul-de-Sac 07:29	buy track
4.	Summer All Year Round 04:35	buy track
5.	Facilities For All Ages 04:38	buy track
6.	Pedestrian Shopping Deck 05:05	buy track
7.	A New Town With an Old Sense of Community 05:04	buy track

about

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan's new album, Your Community Hub, compellingly continues his sonic exploration of the New Towns movement. The issues the councillors, planners, and architects set out to solve still resound and echo throughout society.

For the latest instalment in this unique project, Gordon Chapman-Fox turns his laser eye to focus on Community and the Community Centres that populated Warrington and Runcorn in order to provide all the facilities people needed within a five minute walk from their home. These planning ideas predated the current discussions of fifteen minute cities by fifty years.

Those intervening years have seen a decline in our community centres and services: handy access to a GP or dentist, Post Offices, youth clubs, local shops, banking and much more. Successive governments have undermined and eroded those basic services. The decline in community services has also been matched with a decline in community and shared experiences with a knock-on effect on the population's health and well-being. The disastrous austerity policies imposed over the last 15 years have exacerbated this long, slow reduction in available spaces for people to meet and communicate, with seemingly no recognition of the societal impact that causes. Short-termism at the expense of the community and how we live our lives.

Margaret Thatcher's statement that "there is no such thing as society" has been taken as a mission statement by successive Conservative governments who have aimed to remove as much support and communality from the citizens as possible. It continues now, the wrong-headed idea that everyone can be left to fend for themselves.

Chapman-Fox's latest album decries the cruelty of where we find ourselves in 2024 and his quiet incandescence about the loss of optimism for what communities should be and could be. It's his most powerful work, and as always, it will deeply resonate with those who tune in to his unique vision and unparalleled productions.

All four WRNTDP albums to date have had increasing critical and commercial success. Your Community Hub will resonate with anyone with a social conscience, anyone who feels how badly the state has let us down.

As ever, beautifully packaged and designed by Gordon, the album artwork features photographs from the archive of the architect Peter Garvin, which was kindly provided by his son Richard Garvin. The photographs show Peter's work on the Castlefield Community Centre, a sleek modernist structure clad in white ceramic tiles.

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released May 24, 2024

Music and sleeve design by Gordon Chapman-Fox.
Mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw.
Illustrations by Michael Cooke.
Original photos and drawings provided by Richard Garvin, from the archive of architect Peter Garvin

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Oct 12

Club Nautico

Wigan, UK
Oct 24

Belgrave Music Hall & Canteen

Leeds, UK
Nov 23

The Gregson Centre

Lancaster, UK

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