A Big Issue in the North job took me to Castleford, West Yorkshire, last week where Channel 4 are filming a town-wide makeover programme.
The Castleford Project started out back in 2003 and was finally completed earlier this month with the opening of a sleek, contemporary footbridge over the River Aire. It was just one of 11 improvement projects commissioned from top architects by the town's residents.
I saw a few of the outcomes and it seems to have been a worthwhile exercise in regeneration and community pride. Hopefully it'll be good telly too; the resulting documentary series will be broadcast in four parts throughout August.
But after five years of work and millions of pounds in complicated mixed-source funding, I can't imagine it'll become a series.
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