With Axminster’s Skate Park appearing increasingly forlorn, it’s a shame that whoever has overall responsibility for the place doesn’t drive 40 minutes along the A35, in an Easterly direction, to inspect the recently-opened skate park in Dorchester to see how it should be done.
Given some of Dorchester’s recent planning faux pas...
Including large chunks of Poundbury (where Prince Charles is obviously under the misguided impression that you can add an archway and/or a tower to any mediocre building, to automatically transform it into something memorable) and the new Health Centre in Weymouth Avenue (where Charlie’s policy of building rather naff, utterly fake and wholly inappropriate buildings, worryingly seems to have spread to the town centre).
...I was naturally concerned when I heard of the plans to build a facility for skateboarders opposite the historic Maumbury Rings, a Neolithic henge and Roman amphitheatre.
I needn’t have worried.
The thoughtful, organic, sympathetic design - which echos the lines of the neighbouring amphitheatre - is an absolute triumph. And, judging by the large amount of kids that has been using it every time that I've passed by, it's obviously more than just a work of art.
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I'm Jane McIntyre, a Sony-winning BBC producer who asked to take the money and run. Now running, daily, and er... spending the money. Also, writing (recently runner-up in LateRooms travel blog competition) and working regularly as an 'extra' in TV, commercials and movies. Hurrah!
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Stembridge are a graphic design and web design company based in Axminster, a small market town in Devon, famous for its carpet-making and, these days, River Cottage.
We’re small, friendly and unpretentious - a bit like Axminster itself - and specialise in corporate identity and brand development for businesses in East Devon, South Somerset and West Dorset.
That said, we can turn our mind to pretty much anything - apart from (maybe) lion-taming - including business stationery, promotional items, marketing advice, websites and print management. Our design work is all carried out in-house, including any copywriting - ensuring cohesive results that will always sound right, as well as look right.