Last Saturday, Letchworth Garden City’s Standalone Farm welcomed over 100 people from around the county to try a range of specially designed cycles for the mobility impaired, promoting disabled access to the countryside through the Garden City Greenway.
Visitors of all ages with a range of disabilities, some of whom have never ridden a bike before, cruised around with friends and families in side-by-side tandems, wheelchair tandems, hand-cranked trikes and other cycles.
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation is calling for views and ideas on the future of Letchworth Town Centre, through a series of consultation initiatives starting with a public exhibition which opens this Saturday (14 May).
Landlord’s Consent & Consent under the Scheme of Management Notices are now available in The Comet
You can now read the weekly notices for Letchworth Garden City’s residential applications to develop, extend or alter properties in The Comet on page three. In addition, you can search applications by postcode, by clicking here.
The Heritage Foundation Board has named the successor to Stuart Kenny, who retires after 15 years at the end of June.
John Lewis, 44, will take over the reins as the Foundation’s Chief Executive and will be looking to re-locate from his present home in Milton Keynes, nearer to the world’s first Garden City, in due course.
A former Olympic Silver Medallist, World Champion and World Record holder graced the stage at the recent Heritage Foundation’s Sports Clubs Dinner in the Spirella Ballroom.
Guest of honour and former top flight hurdler Colin Jackson addressed an audience of Garden City Sports Clubs and other invited guests and focussed on the importance of grass roots sport. As well as sharing the highlights of an illustrious career as one of Great Britain’s premier athletes of all time, Colin answered a range of questions from the audience.
From the new Town Centre re-development to Design Standards and ‘green’ sustainable issues etc.. – many subjects on life in the world’s first Garden City were discussed at the Annual Garden City Meeting, in the Spirella Ballroom last Thursday.
Around 170 people heard two keynote speeches on a review of the last 12 months and the Foundation’s plans for the future– one from Stuart Kenny, Director General of Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation and the other by Foundation Chairman Alan Scouller.
Work is underway on vital ‘Street Scene’ improvements for Letchworth Garden City’s two main shopping streets.
Major changes on Eastcheap and Leys Avenue will transform their ‘look and feel’.
Leys Square is being extended with new landscaped seating areas, attractive water features and sculptures between the ‘square’ and The Colonnade, opposite Letchworth Garden City railway station.
Using high quality materials and finishes, the improvements will also redefine the relationship between the pavements and the roadways.
The 2008 meeting took place in The Spirella Ballroom, on May 15. As well as the keynote speeches, there was an ‘Any Questions’ session lasting over an hour.
The full proceedings were recorded and are now available to view online.
Once again public recognition is being afforded to people who have gone or will be going that ‘extra mile’ in improving their properties in the world’s first Garden City.
On behalf of Alan Scouller, Chairman of the Heritage Foundation and myself, can I thank the 230 plus people who attended the annual Garden City Meeting in the Spirella Ballroom on 9th May.
Plans to regenerate the heart of the world's first Garden City, by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, held centre stage at the Annual Garden City Meeting, in the Spirella Ballroom, on Thursday 18 May 2006.
A new planning agenda for the 21st Century combining Sustainability, New Urbanism and the Garden City is the challenge being taken up in the second International Garden City Research Fellowship.
Thursday 18 May 2006 The Spirella Ballroom
7pm for 7.30pm start
If you live or work in Letchworth Garden City, this is your opportunity to find out what has been happening in the town recently and, more importantly, learn about the Heritage Foundation’s activities and plans for the future.
About 30 schoolchildren descended on a beautiful part of Letchworth Garden City's 'green and pleasant land' on Thursday and gave the newly completed outdoor environmental education centre - now the only one in the area - a resounding 'thumbs up.'
Letchworth GC's own version of 'Question Time' takes to the floor on Thursday May 19, with the Annual Garden City Meeting - being held for the first time in the Spirella Ballroom.
Heritage Foundation Governors, including Board of Management members, will 'tour' Letchworth Garden City venues and chat to the public on a wide range of matters.
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation's £1.25m Greenway, encircling the 5,500 acre Estate, was officially opened last Saturday ( May 3) by pop star and television gardening expert Kim Wilde.
The world's first Garden City will be broadcast live to the homes of 1.5 million people throughout the country later this year, when the BBC's premier radio show comes to town.
Thursday 18 May 2006
About 30 schoolchildren descended on a beautiful part of Letchworth Garden City's 'green and pleasant land' on Thursday and gave the newly completed outdoor environmental education centre - now the only one in the area - a resounding 'thumbs up.'
Heritage Foundation Governors, including Board of Management members, will 'tour' Letchworth Garden City venues and chat to the public on a wide range of matters.
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation's £1.25m Greenway, encircling the 5,500 acre Estate, was officially opened last Saturday ( May 3) by pop star and television gardening expert Kim Wilde.
The world's first Garden City will be broadcast live to the homes of 1.5 million people throughout the country later this year, when the BBC's premier radio show comes to town.
