Griff Rhys Jones (President of Civic Voice) congratulating Johm Dent on hearing about our success in the Georgian Society and Civic Trust Awards at the Civic Voice Northwest Network meeting in Preston yesterday.
Press Release – January 2011 Cockermouth Shopfront Scheme shortlisted for national Civic Trust award The Cockermouth Shopfront Heritage Grant Scheme has been shortlisted for a 2012 Civic Trust award. Established in 1959, the Civic Trust award scheme recognises the very best in architecture, urban design, planning, landscape, public realm and public art. Shortlisted projects are [...]
The Civic Trust held a special member’s meeting on Wednesday. The purpose was to provide time for the committee and members to jointly review issues affecting Cockermouth and the future of the Civic Trust movement in Cockermouth & nationally. A key focus was how to encourage new active membership at a time when the Civic [...]
Cockermouth and District Civic Trust are delighted to announce the Cockermouth Shop Front Heritage Scheme has been named as a joint winner of a national architectural award. The Scheme offered traders in the town’s post-flood Main Street funding to restore their properties to their former Georgian splendour. The Scheme came in as a joint winner [...]
We extremely pleased to be able to report that the Cockermouth Shopfront Heritage Grant Scheme has been short-listed in the ‘Restoration of a Georgian Building in an Urban Setting’ category as part of the 2011 Georgian Group Architectural Awards. This is a fantastic achievement and testament to the joined-up working of the steering group that has made [...]
As part of our active interest in the development, improvement and protection of Cockermouth we have prepared the following letter requesting additional information from the Environment Agency concerning the proposed flood defences that would run from Victoria Bridge all the way round to the end of Waterloo Street. Details of the proposals can be found on the [...]
The planning inquiry for the large housing development on the outskirts of Cockermouth started today but was ajourned after about one and a half hours of proceedings due to a procedural problem. The exact details are not clear as to how and why correct consultation was not carried out for amended plans submitted by the appellant. The Trust are one [...]
