Burns+Nice - Barking Broadway Theatre Public Realm

This project was one of the four pilot projects that were developed in 2005 in connection with the Barking Code. It illustrates how to implement the Code and creates a distinctive local character for Barking.

The Broadway Theatre Public Realm Scheme has created a multi-purpose all-year round space that will stimulate informal meetings and events outside the Theatre and links Abbey Green, the historic open space within Barking Town Centre to the new Town Square developed to the east of the Town Hall.

The public space was designed as an ellipse with an axis linking the Broadway Theatre entrance to the Curfew Tower and St Margarets Church within Abbey Green. Semi-mature alder tree planting along Clockhouse Avenue and Axe Street frame the Theatre and a lawn in front of the Theatre provides a visual link with the main Abbey Green open space to the west of Broadway.