Stroud Civic Society

(Words by Tim Mars)  Invitation: You are cordially invited to a meeting hosted by Stroud Civic Society to discuss and debate Ecotricity’s ambitious plans for an ‘EcoPark’ on a large greenfield site beside Junction 13 of the M5 near Eastington.  Ecotricity’s EcoPark – Greentech or Greenwash? Is the proposed EcoPark a[…]

Following our nomination of Gloucester Service back in May (alongside a allied nomination by Matson and Robinswood Residents Group) we are delighted to announce that the project won both the New Build Category AND was the Overall Award Winner! The ceremony took place in London last week, with the Society represented by[…]

Gloucester Services is a motorway services area between junctions 12 and 11a on the M5. It is unique in combining the local/farm/family model of Tebay services in the Lake District with a social/charitable/community dimension represented by Gloucestershire Gateway Trust. It is Tebay with a twist. Gloucestershire Gateway Trust is based[…]

A report on Stroud Civic Society’s talk on 22nd January 2015 It was a full house at Stroud’s Old Town Hall in the Shambles on Thursday 22nd January as people crowded inside to hear an illustrated talk about the new service station on the M5. Certainly, we were offered three[…]

A report and update from Tim Mars. Looks like it’s game set and match for ASDA.  On Tuesday 14 April 2015, Stroud District Council’s Development Control Committee meets to reconsider the three out-of-town superstore applications and the in-town supermarket possibility.   They are strongly recommended to give ASDA—and only ASDA—the thumbs-up.[…]

Comments submitted by Tim Mars, representing the Civic Society, to SDC on 18th December: Stroud Civic Society’s submission in respect of proposals to erect two flats on the site of a garage at Fawkes Place.  This application was only drawn to our attention on 16 December 2014, the deadline for[…]

Autumn 2014 updates: The Heritage Open Day was a great success, around 100 people visited. Many more could have come if there had been space for parking as over 300 people applied for tickets.  There was a great deal of appreciation from the public that the Civic Society had arranged[…]

Baxters Fields, Summer Street, Stroud – Appeal refused! Controversial proposals for housing on this site were put forward in 2013. The Civic Society, along with many others, submitted an objection, quoted below.  There is much more background on the Save Slad Valley website http://www.savesladvalley.org.uk/home.html The applications (there were two, one[…]

Report by Sue Houseago As the keeper of the key, unusually, for the Old Town Hall, it felt quite exciting to unlock the old door ready for the last of the Civic Society’s winter talks. How wonderful that this 16th century building – court, prison, school and finally town hall[…]

Following Hugh Barton’s January talk on the future of Stroud’s Cheapside neighbourhood we now have the full report he and his colleagues prepared for the site. Their report is an independent project prepared pro bono by Cheapside Design Group at the request of Stroud Town Council. The design group consists of Prof[…]