Public Works and Utilities
The sixth Warrington-Runcorn album continues to explore New Towns and the demise of the post-war consensus. This time Gordon Chapman-Fox’s gaze falls on our public services that have been starved of cash or privatised since 1980. “It seems ridiculous in hindsight for a developed country to have packed up and sold off vital infrastructure such […]
Your Community Hub
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan’s new album, Your Community Hub continues Gordon Chapman-Fox’s sonic exploration of the New Towns movement, and how the issues they set out to solve still echo today. The theme for 2024’s album is Community, and the Community Centres that populated Warrington and Runcorn to provide all the facilities people needed […]
The Nation’s Most Central Location
The fourth Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan album, The Nation’s Most Central Location, will be released on 19 May 2023. This album sees Gordon Chapman-Fox (the man behind Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan) explore the north-south divide and reflect on 40 years of broken ‘levelling up’ promises. With eight tracks across 40 minutes, the album […]
Districts, Roads, Open Space
Becoming more experimental, and more elongated, the music captures the open spaces, and the connections of town planning.
People & Industry
The follow up to Interim Report, March 1979 provides a soundtrack to industry, employment and life in Warrington-Runcorn at the tail end of the 1970s.
Interim Report, March 1979
Commisioned to soundtrack a film to publicise the work of the Committee in providing a thriving cultural life for the residents of the new estates of Warrington and Runcorn.