As the local elections approach, we have launched a new Town Centre Manifesto. We’re petitioning councillors and candidates for @CheltenhamBC to restore the civic pride in Cheltenham’s town centre. We’re appealing to councillors of @GlosCC to do the same.

Just when we seem to be making progress on public realm.Improvement, @GlosCC lumbers us with these monstrosities. No one asked for them, no one’s opinion was sought and GCC seems oblivious to the s72 Duty towards conservation areas.

RT @PlanningMag: A council has launched a legal challenge to a planning inspector’s decision to allow 800 homes on an unallocated greenfiel….

RT @Architectolder: The Trevi Fountain was designed by Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762. No one needs to give you a….

RT @Liverpool1207: Normally a big advocate of looking up. perhaps not on Lime Street

RT @TheCityMentor: In Berlin, a "Cooling Point" was built for €45.000, consisting among other things of wooden benches and plants. About….

RT @Architectolder: Beauty is obvious; ugliness requires a lecture. If you think the war on art is bad, take a look at architecture. https:….

@CheltenhamBC It’s not perfect but it’s a huge improvement on what we could have been lumbered with. Is the message getting through that people want beauty and appropriate development? Have architects been woken up by our UnCivic Awards for the ugliest buildings, like Dowty House?

Wisely, the applicant acted on the feedback and 11 months later, was granted consent for this scheme for 18 flats in a far more appropriate style, shape and mass with much improved amenity areas. Beauty and appropriateness matter and we’re delighted with @CheltenhamBC’s decision.

Last summer, the Architects’ Panel, @HistoricEngland and members of the public objected strongly to a scheme to demolish a recently de-listed (Grade II) building on Winchcombe Street in the Central Conservation Area and replace it with this ugly, inappropriate block of 26 flats.

RT @NouveauDeco: Some more pics. #Mexico

RT @NouveauDeco: The glorious stained-glass ceiling of the Art Nouveau "El Palacio de Hierro", a huge department store from 1920 in Mexico….

RT @michael_diamant: 🇩🇪 A THOUSAND MORE NEEDED: If one want to know what a modernistic city would be like, then go no further than to Germa….

RT @mod_in_metro: Today marks 45 years since the Firestone Factory office building on the Great West Road, Brentford was unceremoniously de….

RT @kymeriandawn: @CheltCivicSoc It works in Churchdown :) i have a friend who rents an above garage annexe, for lower than market rent (f….

This is an interesting concept. Could it work in and for Cheltenham?.

RT @TheCityMentor: @JamesonLowe3 Problematic is the lack of design-language. Instead of building on a traditional set of rules, modernists….

RT @TheCityMentor: Beautiful, traditional architecture has an extended lifespan, surviving hundreds of years, since it's worth preserving….

We warned that the perverse 131 decision would be used to justify inappropriate developments affecting our important heritage buildings. We didn’t expect @CheltenhamBC itself to be the first to do it - and on a Grade I listed building!.

RT @MarkMooseOwen: Chocolate drink specialist Knoops is coming to Cheltenham @CheltenhamBID @CheltenhamBC @CheltCiv….

RT @RoyalFineArt: @CheltCivicSoc And still do. A Grade I Georgian country house (Woolton Hall in Liverpool) was burnt to a cinder last nigh….