Urban Studies Committee - Trust Annual Report 1991
Following the successful completion of Chippindale Venture II in March, the Urban Studies Committee set up a subcommittee to run Chippindale Venture III. This has enabled the Urban Studies Committee to direct more energy and time to consider other matters.
The Chippindale Venture III committee are well advanced with their plans. The project for 1991/92 is a mixture of building, landscape and environmental problems and considers the planning issues for an "African Bowl" at Marwell Zoo. The two schools taking part are Compton Junior School and Westgate School.
The Urban Studies Committee have been asked to deliver a paper on the Chippindale Venture at a workshop organised by the Building Experiences Trust which is to be staged in Cambridge in April 1992.
The Committee intends to provide the Preservation Trust with a comprehensive library of slides of Winchester to supplement the existing collection which Harold Sturgess has been putting together over the last two years. It is envisaged that such a collection could be used by teachers, students, planners, architects as well as for research background and possibly advertising our exhibitions. The collection should obviously become valuable as it becomes both more historic and comprehensive.
The Committee is arranging a series of winter lectures aimed at giving people a wider understanding of the urban environment. The intention is not only to evaluate the Winchester City urban scene but to look at other cities both in this country and abroad in order to provide a perspective backdrop against which Winchester can be compared. We are hoping that the lecturers will enable us to evaluate and measure the problems and vitality as well as the current and likely future performance of the City. Speakers will include planners, architects, politicians and conservationists. It is hoped that the calibre and theme of these talks will encourage Trust members to attend on a regular basis.
NB a lecture programme around a common theme is a new departure for the Trust and is still in progress of organisation. It will take place during February to May 1992 and members will be advised of details in due course. Apart from the AGM on 21st October no lectures or events have been arranged in the meantime.