This year, we are holding a photography competition in the city, with the theme: “I love Bristol because….” We want to encourage members of the public to take a photo of their favourite building or open space in Bristol, and to send this to us. The best of these photographs will be awarded prizes, based on creativity, imagination and originality. Photography Made Simple www.photographymadesimple.co.uk have kindly donated prizes of a day's photography course at Ashton Court for each category winner, and 121 tuition for the overall competition winner.
Competition Rules
As we want to collect a fantastic visual catalogue of what people love about Bristol, we are not placing too many rules on entries to the photography competition.
But here they are, just for your reference!
1. The competition is open to individual interpretation 2. Entries should be submitted with your name, the photograph title, your email address and telephone number. 3. Submit entries via Twitter – www.twitter.com/bristolcivicday , Facebook - www.facebook.com/bristolcivicday or email - bristolcivicday@live.co.uk 4. All entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not infringe the rights of any other party. The entrant must be the sole owner of the copyright in all photographs entered and must of obtained permission of any people featured in entries prior to submission. 5. By entering the competition all entrants grant Bristol Civic Society the right to publish and exhibit their photographs on the Bristol Civic Society website and other promotional material. 6. By entering, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these rules and Bristol Civic Society reserve the right to exclude entries from the competition at any time if it is believed an entrant has breached these rules. 7. Bristol Civic Society reserves the right to cancel this competition or alter any of the rules at any stage. 8. The competition is open from 7th May - 16th June 2012
Around 250 people joined up to listen to our four speakers talk
about their ideas for the future of Bristol.A lot was said and even more remains to be done.Here’s a few thoughts from the evening that
you are cordially invited to comment on.
David Bishop, Strategic Director of City Development for
Bristol
David talked of Bristol as a triangle formed by Cabot
Circus, the Harbourside and Templemeads, the area between and within these
points needs to be joined up with bus networks, cycling routes and improved
pedestrian areas (Nelson St specifically mentioned).Future development is coming with the Mshed
to be shortly finished and suburban development in 2017/2018 expanding
residential communities in St Phillips and Old Market.
Peter Floyd, Urban Design Consultant for Business West
Bristolian born and bred Peter described Bristol as a ‘comfy
city’ giving us a potted history of plans for central Bristol, the earliest
being drawn up in the 1930’s, some that had come to fruition and others that
for war or other reasons had not.Peter
also described the plans in 1966 drawn up and agreed in the space of six weeks –
before the idea of public consultation!A
reminder perhaps, that we should exercise our right to comment very much like
our right to vote.
John Punter, Professor of Urban Design, Cardiff University
Other cities around the UK have been through similar regeneration
and ‘joining up’ John encouraged the audience to learn from these
examples.Birmingham was praised for good
mixed use and first internet based consultation.Manchester for the creation of good public
space and successfully differentiating quarters for; shopping, residential,
office and conservation.Nottingham for
well thought out transport and land use with different specifications used for
different streets removing all unnecessary clutter.Sheffield and Liverpool were also worthy of
mention but the point stressed by John was the importance of research to
analyse movement of both people and traffic so that we can understand
connectivity and predict flow.
David Freed, Director of Denley Freed Estates
Lastly David spoke from the property developer’s
perspective.There is no pot of money
waiting to deliver these ideas therefore engagement with private developers is
a necessity.Consultation with the
council and the community in early stages is vital in containing design
costs.David went on to share plans for
the St Mary le Port area, restoring part of the old city and building on some
of the green space.
The impact of German bombing on Bristol, particularly the six major air raids over the winter of 1940-41 is beginning to slip from memory now. Yet it was the most traumatic experience that Bristol endured since the Civil War, with 1,299 people losing...
Around 250 people joined up to listen to our four speakers talk
about their ideas for the future of Bristol.
