CIVIC AWARDS SCHEME

Contributed by John Sutton We are due to make further Civic Awards again this year. The object of the scheme is to encourage high quality of design and workmanship throughout the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. The scheme is operated in conjunction with the Borough Council and is probably the project which identifies most closely with the [...]

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Civic Awards Scheme 2011

Newcastle-under-Lyme Civic Society and Borough Council   The Civic Awards aim to promote better design in buildings and development of land in the Newcastle-under-Lyme area, and to recognise their contribution to the enhancement of the Borough.   Do you know of a building completed between 1st January 2009            and  31st December 2010 worthy of nomination for [...]

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CIVIC AWARDS – 2011

Contributed by John Sutton   Last year, after a very long lapse, we revived this scheme, which is run in conjunction with Newcastle Borough Council. The idea is to encourage high quality design and workmanship in new buildings, refurbished existing buildings and landscaping projects.  The award is planned to be given every two years and [...]

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POWER TO THE NIMBY ACTIVIST

  By Griff Rhys Jones, by permission of Civic Voice and the  National Trust  A few years ago, standing on a bridge, overlooking a motorway that enabled people to roar across Glasgow at ninety miles an hour (at enormous cost to architecture and quietude) I was proudly told by a charming Civil Engineer that the [...]

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Development

Contributed by Dr Angela Drakakis-Smith As more building sites come on stream within Newcastle and although there appears to be no rapid uptake of these sites, it is important to be aware of any planning applications made for these sites to the Newcastle Borough Council (NBC) especially those in and on the edge of the [...]

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Tesco Development – Summer 2010

Contributed by Mr Ron Redgewell  As we go to press, the Public Inquiry is taking place into Tesco’s planning application to nearly double the size of its store in Trent Vale. Fellow member, Paul Farrelly, MP, succeeded in convincing the Secretary of State to ‘call in’ Stoke-on-Trent Council’s decision to approve the application, thus enabling a Planning [...]

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Going Up ?

Contributed by Dr Angela Drakakis-Smith Those who have followed the development of the former Georgia Pacific site opposite to St Giles’s Church along the A34 and next to the former Pomona Inn, might notice that the shell of the new building is now with us.  Whilst the exterior appears better than first thought in terms [...]

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The Wall, The Wall !

Contributed by Dr Angela Drakakis-Smith   Whilst the local list might be being drawn up as this is being written (hopefully), it will be too late to save one of the historical toll road stone bridge parapet walls along the A525 at Thistleberry.  Although the demolition took place two years ago, the metal barrier erected [...]

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Draft Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Strategy

Contributed by Dr Angela Drakakis-Smith     Newcastle Borough Council Cabinet has just approved a draft Efficiency and Climate Change Strategy (with an associated Carbon Reduction Plan) which is currently available for consultation.  Deadline for comments from the public is the end of February.  The document can be downloaded from www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk/climatechange or it is available [...]

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Going Swimmingly

Contributed by Dr Angela Drakakis-Smith   It seems that the public Jubilee Baths are about to be demolished and a new baths and leisure centre built.  The plans are currently on deposit at the Guildhall and on the Borough Council web site. The reality of a new leisure centre arises because the old one needs [...]

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