Bristol Civic Society
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We are an independent charitable organisation that campaigns to make Bristol a better place to live, work and visit. New members are welcome.
Joined November 2010
We have made a formal request to government to 'call in' the St Mary le Port proposals and to establish a public inquiry to examine the proposals independently. Details on our website:
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Whatever is happening with the Llandoger Trow? Over 350 years old. But closed since April 2019. Looking so unloved and forlorn. Such a historic and potentially attractive building. Should Bristol campaign for its renovation?.
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The Society has objected to the proposal to demolish the Premier Inn and to replace it with two residential towers, the highest reaching to 28 storeys. More detail on our website:
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Bristol Civic Society was disappointed with the proposals for Temple Island. We cannot support the preapplication plans as they stand. More details on our website:
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We object strongly to proposals to redevelop both the Premier Inn and the Debenhams building, which should not be considered in isolation of each other. Details on our website:
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Contrasting views of St Mary le Port from Bristol Bridge today, and that proposed by developers.
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We have strongly objected to the planning application for the redevelopment of the Premier Inn, The Haymarket, which is now with Bristol City Council. Details on our website:
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Our next winner is @theunderfall! Impressive harbourside project. Congratulations @AlecFrenchArchs & the community involved in regeneration
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The proposal for the St Mary-Le-Port site is not an appropriate design response to this sensitive site located in Bristol’s historic core. More details on our website:
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The Civic Society's Major Sites Group has sent a strongly worded objection to the proposed development on Waterfront Place. More details on the website:
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Llandoger Trow: we have been in touch with the City Council - the property is being securely looked after & options are being actively investigated. We will maintain a watching brief.
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#Bristol's best architectural design projects are nominated for the 2017 Awards. Join us on 26 June to find out more
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The Civic Society does not support the height and mass of proposals to develop land between Silverthorne Lane and the Feeder Canal - see The Victorian Society is also objecting to this scheme - see
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We ask for nominations and have no geographical bias. Got one in progress currently for Knowle West and keen to have more applications from all suburbs to achieve an even spread across our city. One candidate is Garth England so research and help us celebrate a Bristol artist.
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We want to celebrate the best of Bristol's buildings this month, starting with The @wills_memorial Tower at night time. #bestofbristol
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There will be an unveiling of a Bristol Civic Society Blue Plaque for Emma Martin on 23rd February 2023 at Bridewell Street. Details on our website:
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In our view, the upper seven storeys of this proposed development look out of place and would be harmful to its heritage. Details on the website:
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We have objected strongly to an amended development proposal for the former Bart Spices site, Mead Street. Details on our website: 📷.
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Thanks to @Savills for sponsoring the #Bristol Design Awards. Wins for @theunderfall, @WappingWharfBS1, Lynwood House & Kingsmarsh House
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Amazing to hear more about the team involved in saving @theunderfall. Starting with a lot of research!
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We have objected in the strongest terms to the planning application for the redevelopment of the Debenhams building. Details on our website:
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Is it possible to cross Bristol’s 43 bridges without crossing the same bridge twice? http://t.co/lruvcnGa5T by mathematician @thilogross.
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The Society is starting work on a campaign to make sure that the Society’s point of view is heard loud and clear in the forthcoming consultations on the future of Western Harbour. More details on our website:
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Video of a Zoom consultation event with developer Umberslade on their proposals for Wapping Wharf North, an important site in a prominent position on the Floating Harbour. View on our website:
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The Society is disappointed by the lack of ambition with the proposal to developed Bristol Zoological Gardens site. Details on the website:
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There are revisions to the massive development on land between Silverthorne Lane and the Feeder Canal. The Society cannot support the height and mass of the proposed residential accommodation. Details on our website:
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We broadly welcomed the latest proposals for the Raleigh Road development, liking the scale, design and type of houses proposed. More details on our website:
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Thank you to everyone who joined us this evening and to @Kevin_McCloud for presenting the awards. Congratulations to our winners!.
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The Spring-Summer Better Bristol magazine is now online.
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On 23 November 2023 in Orchard Street, a blue plaque was dedicated to the Crimea and Indian Mutiny Veterans Association. Details on our website:
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Plot 1 Malago Road: March update.Bristol Civic Society has two principal objections to this development: the height and massing of the proposal, and the amount of purpose-built student accommodation. More details on the website:
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Save over 50% on Steve Poole’s new book Bristol from Below from @boydellbrewer. Simply quote BB475 at the checkout
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Our first winner is Kingsmarsh House in Lawrence Hill by @KKLBristol for @BristolCouncil. Congratulations!.
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Our next winner is Lynwood House - Grade 2 residential conversion & new build. Congratulations @nomaarchitects @sovereignha @EGCarterCoLtd
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Our website has a video of a Zoom presentation by George Ferguson and Clare Wilks on the 'Our World Bristol' vision for the future of Bristol Zoo Gardens. Details:
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We fully support the revised proposals for the redevelopment of Mickleburgh store in Stokes Croft. Details on our website:
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Lynwood House, Wapping Wharf and Kingsmarsh House all show that we are expecting more from residential properties. That is a great thing!.
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@civic_voice @yorkcivictrust @PontefractCivic @CheltCivicSoc @createstreets @lauraedgar1 @EpsomCivicSoc @LeedsCivicTrust @ben_derbyshire Here are the Bristol Civic Society awards in 2021:.
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There are still some tickets left for the Design Awards on Thursday 21 June.
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Fancy putting up a blue plaque to some great woman/man who once lived in Bristol? We run them for @BristolCouncil
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10 Guinea Street will feature in a BBC 2 series on 26th May at 9 pm. 'A House Through Time' sets out to uncover the history of a single house. Details on the website:
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A video of a Zoom presentation by Geoff Wallis on the industrial and maritime heritage in and around the Cumberland Basin.
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The Society has responded to a consultation on a new Parks Strategy and we raise a number of practical concerns. Details on the website:
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Ashton Court Mansion: January 2024 update.Our initiative to secure the restoration of Ashton Court Mansion is making positive progress. Details on our website:
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After much research and fund-raising by Bristol Humanists, a blue plaque has been unveiled at Bridewell Street, Bristol for Emma Martin, a campaigning feminist, atheist and socialist. More details on our website:
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Ashley Down, Sun April 17:a blue plaque will be unveiled for Walter Ayles, Bristol’s most prominent opponent of WWI
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Development Control A Committee has backed the Premier Inn redevelopment and we have submitted a Public Forum statement. More details on our website:
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We object very strongly to the proposed residential tower block on top of Castle Park Energy Centre. Tall buildings are not essential to meeting the housing crisis in Bristol. Details on our website:
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Bristol Local History Book Fair http://t.co/wy7YTNTUy8 at the @BristolRO on Saturday .talks from@EugeneByrne @BrisRadHis.
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Our concerns about proposals for 1 Passage Street are unchanged: they require the demolition of a relatively modern building and they have an adverse impact on historic buildings. Details on our website:
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The review of Bristol’s Local Plan is coming to its final stages and we have five concerns about the Plan’s approach. Details on our website:
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The Society welcomes the Council’s publication of a Supplementary Planning Guidance Document on Houses in Multiple Occupation. Details:
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Blue plaques for Canon Percy Gay, vicar at St George’s for 45 years, and for Sgt Maurice Rogers, killed in action in World War II and awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously. Details on our website:
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On 23rd August, a blue plaque was unveiled at 41 Westbury Road, Westbury-on-Trym celebrating Hungarian-born polymer scientist Professor Andrew Keller FRS, who lived there for more than 30 years. Details on our website:
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The Society supports in principle the proposals to replace the Galleries with a mixed-use development but does not accept the need to include a high-rise tower in the development. More details on our website:
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Cargo - Wapping Wharf next stage - new offices in re-purposed shipping containers inside the old prison wall. More at
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Sylvia Crowe: Cumberland Basin Bridges & Ashton Gate Junction Guided Walk , next Tuesday, led by @wendy_tippett
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The Civic Society’s Transport and Place-Making group has taken a considered look at the road layout options for Western Harbour. More details on our website:
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We comment on the draft 'Vision for the Western Harbour'. Details on our website:
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Bristol Civic Society continues to consider that the current design of Clanage Road development is bland and inappropriate in such a location. Details on our website:
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It’s important that we take a stand against air pollution and climate change. Join climate charity @_wearepossible new Car Free Cities campaign and show your support for projects from parklets to low traffic neighbourhoods: #CarFreeCities.
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The Secretary of State has decided not to call in the proposals for St Mary le Port and it is now for the Council to determine whether the scheme progresses. More details on our website:
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We support the proposed development of the 1970s Canningford House office building on Victoria Street. More details on our website:
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On Friday 27th May 2022 a blue plaque was unveiled commemorating the life of a Barton Hill boy who went on to become a highly distinguished Labour and Co-operative Party politician - Earl Alexander of Hillsborough. Details on our website:
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A blue plaque celebrating the lives of Emily and Elizabeth Sturge will be unveiled on 21st June 2021 at the former Redland High School. More details on our website:
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We're all ready for The Civic Society Design Awards! So many impressive #Bristol projects to celebrate. ☺
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Have you read our response to the new development in Bridewell St? The buildings proposed will fail contribute. http://t.co/oRMit5YQDy.
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Countdown begins to prevent loss of thousands of footpaths and alleyways
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High-rise Bristol event: videos of the three presentations are now available at the foot of website coverage
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@KnightstoneHA @natfedDavid @Knightsinwhites so proud we could award the J3 development, beautifully designed by @archidave.
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.@thederrywalls @EnglishHeritage @GeorgeFergusonx very happy the @BristolOldCity guide is useful well beyond Bristol cc @alanbmorris.
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We support proposals for the former Drive Vauxhall and Kawasaki sites on Avon Street Bristol but have a number of concerns, including the heights of some buildings. More details on our website:
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@MaryEPage3 @mc007c4556 @iBristolPeople @MetroBusTW @Chris_Noteeth Thanks all for your interesting tweets. Taken on board! #notonthebus.
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The fascinating story of what became known as the White City will be unfolded for us by Clive Burlton, a publisher, author and local historian. More details on our website:
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The Spring-Summer 2022 issue of our magazine Better Bristol is now published online.
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Please RT! Join @Kevin_McCloud to celebrate the best of #Bristol architectural design! 26 June
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A4 Portway scheme: Bristol Civic Society has responded to the second round of consultation on the A4 strategic corridor scheme. More details our website:
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Our Annual General Meeting this year is being held together with the Design Awards event on 14th June at 'The Mount Without', St Michael’s Hill, Bristol.
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Planning permission given to convert St Mary's Hospital as student accommodation. Happy end to Society's 5-year campaign to save and reuse attractive Italianate building
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There is good news with respect to a number of key sites in Bristol: Westmoreland House and Carriageworks, renovation of St Michael’s on the Mount Without, the former Everard's Printing Works, the Wills tobacco factory and offices .More details:
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It's the #Bristol Civic Society Design Awards this evening with @Kevin_McCloud! Still a handful of tickets left
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The video of the Zoom presentation to the Civic Society by the Bristol Zoological Society held on 17th November 2021 is now on our website. This is the second of two presentations on the future of the Bristol Zoo grounds. Go to:
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Queen Square and Old City Conservation Area.A complex development proposal involving Queen Square, Little King Street and Queen Charlotte Street. Details on our website:
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@iBristolPeople @GeorgeFergusonx @MetroBusTW Of course more should be done to improve public transport together with our neighbours!.
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Metrobus: Bristol Civic Society criticises plan for Bedminster http://t.co/0YUzgP5kZ3 << read also our complete statement.
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VOTE! Bristol's Cumberland Piazzal is up against 4 other sites in the Grow Wild competition for a £120,000 grant http://t.co/m3djpx9HdF.
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“Should Bristol become a high rise city?” The conclusion of the three expert speakers at the Bristol Civic Society’s March 5 event was an unambiguous no. Tall buildings are bad for the environment, and bad for happiness. Full details:
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@iBristolPeople thx for the extra info. I will pass them to the transport group. Lots of schemes to review and we work on a voluntary basis.
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Lost rivers of #Bristol – a guided #walk with Melvin Wood on 24th June. To book: walks@bristolcivicsociety.org.uk http://t.co/fr0RoKHO9b.
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