In 2011, well into retirement, I heard that the Abergavenny Civic Society was being revitalised by community-minded volunteers like Sue and Tony Konieczny and Alan Michie, and I felt that I might help. It was apparent that we newcomers did…
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The Civic Trust for Wales promotes civic pride as a means to improving the quality of life for all in the places where we live and work, and encourages community action, good design, sustainable development and respect for the built environment amongst people of all ages.
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Exploring Abergavenny – a personal view
Tagged with: Abergavenny, Abergavenny and District Civic Society, characterisation
Posted in characterisation, magazine, network
Posted in characterisation, magazine, network
Wales Planning Award 2014: CTW ‘Commended’ for ‘Exploring your Town’
(Anna Lermon from Civic Trust third from left) The Civic Trust for Wales’s ‘Exploring your town’ manual and toolkit was a finalist in this years RTPI Cymru ‘Wales Planning Award‘. At the Awards ceremony on Friday, the…
Tagged with: Abergavenny civic society, characterisation, Exploring your town, Newtown Civic Society, Rhiwbina Civic Society
Posted in characterisation, network
Posted in characterisation, network
Exploring Abergavenny with the Newtown Civic Society
On Saturday July 12th Newtown Civic Society visiting Abergavenny and met some of Explore Abergavenny (characterisation) group of the Abergavenny Civic Society. The group were welcomed to Abergavenny by Abergavenny’s Town Mayor Councillor Martin Hickman and his wife Mrs Alison…
Tagged with: Abergavenny, civic society, Explore your town, Newtown
Posted in characterisation, network
Posted in characterisation, network
Characterisation, community engagement and place-making
This is the revised text of a presentation given to an RTPI Urban Design and Conservation regional seminar hosted by Cardiff University’s School of Planning and Geography Innovation and Engagement unit on 25 March 2014. It followed a talk by Judith Alfrey, head of conservation and policy at Cadw, the historic environment service of the Welsh Government.
Tagged with: Abergavenny, characterisation, civic society, Newtown, Porthcawl, rhiwbina
Posted in characterisation, community, conservation, heritage, magazine, planning, reviews
Posted in characterisation, community, conservation, heritage, magazine, planning, reviews
Characterisation: exploring place with community groups
Anna Lermon has published an article in Cynllunio, the magazine of RTPI Cymru, on her work with community groups.
Tagged with: characterisation, Conservation and Urban Design, planning, sense of place, The Civic Trust for Wales
Posted in characterisation, conservation, heritage, information, news, planning
Posted in characterisation, conservation, heritage, information, news, planning
Characterising Newtown
Members of Newtown Civic Society (and a tame conservation officer) caught during characterisation fieldwork in Bryn Street, Penygloddfa, March 7
Nairn’s vision
Ian Nairn died in 1983, but for twenty years he was a blunt critic of the tawdriness of post-war development in British towns and cities. He criticised the emergence of ‘subtopia’ — the blurring of town and country, and the way towns were coming to seem drearily alike.
Charlotte Square
Rhiwbina and District Civic Society is producing a character study of this large Cardiff suburb. This report on Charlotte Square illustrates the approach they have taken to the project.
Sense of place: Victorian Penarth
The Trust moved its offices to Penarth last summer. What a change from central Cardiff! Nowadays, Penarth is virtually a commuter suburb, but it retains a very distinctive sense of place that was shaped in later Victorian and Edwardian times. It’s been fun — even in a miserably wet winter — exploring its streets and discovering some of the features that make this town special.
