The intention of the society’s annual awards is to encourage excessive architectural follow in buildings and environmental enhancements inside Wrexham County.
Over 85 members and company attended the occasion, together with Mayor Councillor Andy Williams and the Mayoress, the chief and deputy chief of Wrexham Council and chair of Wrexham Council’s Planning Committee, Cllr Michael Morris.
Sponsored by GHP Legal, the awards ceremony was introduced by the society’s chairman Geoff Foy and introduced by Cllr Morris.
This 12 months’s award for New Building of Notable Architectural Merit was proudly given to Coleg Cambria on Chester Road because the society was vastly impressed by the design of the building, significantly the usage of glass.
The Cats Protection building on Bradley Road was awarded a commendation with its low projection which doesn’t impair the views of the listed Catholic Cathedral.
Cats Protection Wrexham Adoption Centre on Bradley Road. (Image: Wrexham Area Civic Society)
An award for Conservation of an Existing Building was given to the Hope Street Church, identified in Wrexham because the “old Burtons building” on the nook of Hope Street and Town Hall. This has been conserved to be used as a church and neighborhood centre.
Hope St Church, Hope Street/Town Hill (Image: Wrexham Area Civic Society)
The society is all the time encouraging the reuse of redundant buildings reasonably than demolition, and two such buildings have been reused in Rhosrobin.
An award for Regeneration by Renewal or Replacement of an Existing Building was given for the reuse of the previous Olivet Chapel as an artwork studio.
Olive Chapel building in Rhosrobin (Image: Wrexham Area Civic Society)
A commendation was awarded for the reuse of a redundant building, additionally in Rhosrobin, as “Wrexham Sounds” studios, the place participation of individuals of all ages, significantly the younger when music educating is much less in colleges, is inspired.
An award for Landscaping or Environmental Improvement was given for the sculpture on the entrance to Wrexham Barracks on Kingsmills Road. This fantastic statue, by Nick Elphick, serves as a tribute to the servicemen and ladies of the Welsh Regiment, and is outstanding on the strategy into Wrexham.
Sculpture at entrance to Hightown Barracks (Image: Wrexham Area Civic Society)
Three commendations have been additionally awarded on this class. The mural by Chelsea Jackson on Rhos Library wall has enlivened the strategy into an in any other case nondescript building.
Two additional murals within the decrease degree of Eagles Meadow automobile park brightened an in any other case miserable setting. The third commendation was for the Community Gardens in Holt, for his or her imaginative land use and encouragement of neighborhood participation in gardening.
Eagles Meadow Car Park murals (Image: Wrexham Area Civic Society)
Holt Community Gardeners (Image: Wrexham Area Civic Society)
The Ruth Howarth Award, which is in reminiscence of a longtime member of the society, was given for a big contribution to Wrexham’s setting or high quality of life, not essentially a building or panorama. This 12 months the award was given for the reuse of the Mines Rescue Building on Maesgwyn Road, Wrexham.
The Ruth Howarth Award. Wrexham Miners Rescue Station (Image: Wrexham Area Civic Society)
Former Groves School (Image: Wrexham Area Civic Society)
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The society determined to make three Wooden Spoon awards this 12 months. The first is for the obvious lack of upkeep of the previous Groves School. Wrexham Council has a statutory responsibility to keep up the building within the situation wherein it was listed. It is to be hoped that applicable upkeep is carried out till such time as a reuse is discovered for the building.
The second is for the demolition of St James Vicarage in Rhosddu. This building, constructed in native stone, was apparently demolished with no consideration as to the way it could also be reconfigured for social makes use of. The stone, worthwhile for attainable reuse for upkeep elsewhere, was not even retained, however is now held by the contractor.
The third award is for the land on the nook of St. Giles Way and Bridge Street, derelict now for a lot of years. It is to be hoped that this eyesore, near the Parish Church, can quickly be one way or the other sympathetically redeveloped.
