The Meadows, Nottingham

The Meadows
The Meadows Location within Nottinghamshire
OS grid reference	SK 57384 38554
District	City of Nottingham
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NOTTINGHAM
Postcode district	NG2
Dialling code	0115
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Nottingham South
List of places UK England Nottinghamshire 52°56′28″N 1°08′46″W / 52.941°N 1.146°W / 52.941; -1.146

New Meadows Estate
Radburn style walkways, Manifold Gardens
General information
Location	Nottingham, UK
Status	Stable
Area	400 acres (160 ha)
No. of units	995
Construction
Constructed	1970
Authority	Nottingham City Council
Style	Radburn
Refurbishment
Proposed in	2009
Proposed action	Demolish Q-blocks and de-radburnise
Architect	Taylor Young

The Meadows or Meadows is an area of Nottingham, England, south of the city centre,^[1] close to the River Trent and connected to West Bridgford in the Borough of Rushcliffe by Trent Bridge and the Wilford Suspension Bridge. Victoria Embankment runs alongside the River Trent to the south of the Meadows and is home to the Nottingham War Memorial Gardens.

The Meadows is made up of two distinct areas: the Old Meadows, an area of predominantly pre-1919 privately owned terraced housing laid out in a traditional street pattern, and the New Meadows, an area of mainly social rented housing, built in a Radburn style layout following slum clearance in the late 1970s, and transformed into a more traditional layout after a Private Finance Initiative bid in 2008,^[2] by re-establishing vehicular access and reversing the orientation of some of the houses. Unpopular deck-access maisonettes have been demolished. The Community, still re-establishing, has once again been displaced and dispersed after only 40 years.^{[citation needed]}

The area is served by two tram routes and two bus routes, while a dozen more pass along the peripheral roads. It is a short walk to Nottingham railway station. The Bridgeway shopping centre, a pedestrianised shopping precinct located in the centre of the Meadows, provides a focus for community cohesion, but is facing uncertainty about its future.