Building in Context is a training programme that gives decision makers the tools to recognise how projects can respond well to their surroundings.

Aimed at local authority Design Champions and Heritage Champions, the training programme is being offered to Local Authorities in all of England's regions.

Places Matter! in partnership with CABE and English Heritage has delivered a series of Building in Context Workshops across the Northwest.

The Ambleside study area included both sides of Stock Beck, to the East of the main road. As the oldest part of Ambleside, ‘Above Stock’ retains some of its historic charm, but its relative isolation from (despite its proximity to) the rest of the town centre presents a series of problems that were the basis of the day’s study.

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