New Buildings and Alterations - Trust Annual Report 1982
New buildings and alterations can and should be pleasing additions to the character of Winchester and to acknowledge and encourage this the Trust is instituting a system of annual awards on the model successfully operated by the Oxford Preservation Trust, from whose explanatory leaflet we quote the following extracts:
The Trust invites owners, developers, architects and designers, public authorities and voluntary associa¬tions to submit entries for the Awards to be made by the Trust in 1983. Eligible for awards are schemes which have been completed in 1983 or in the two preceding years, and which are considered to have made a significant contribution to the conservation or improvement of the built or natural environment of the City. Project activities which enhance public awareness and enjoyment of this environment are also eligible.
The purpose of the scheme is to pay tribute to those who contribute to the preservation of the character and beauty of the City and in so doing to heighten public awareness of the features of that character, the preservation and renewal of which calls for constant vigilance and informed judgment and sensibility.
Since 1977 when the Oxford scheme was started, thirty-one awards have been made including projects for the repair, restoration or conversion of a wide variety of old buildings and structures, new houses or groups of buildings, shop fronts and country paths. Nominations for buildings in Winchester will be invited in the coming year when further details will be issued.