In essence, the project is designed to encourage local people and organisations to look around their local area, and identify what exactly makes the area attractive, and why. It’s not just about buildings, but includes open spaces, street furniture, vegetation and much more. The project has three main aims:
- A report will be produced, which will, it is hoped, be a useful tool for local people and planners alike when the vexed question of development and planning applications raise their heads.
- The experience of carrying out the practical work can help to produce a ‘toolkit’, which can be used by other communities to carry out characterisation of their own area.
- Involving local people has the potential to bring together various elements of the community, with a long-term benefit for the whole area.
In the past, Rhiwbina Civic Society has been criticised for seeming to concentrate on the village area, and ignoring what goes on in other parts of Rhiwbina. This project will enable the Society and its partners to involve those parts of Rhiwbina that other activities do not reach.
You may wonder why Rhiwbina was chosen for this project. Originally, the three communities chosen were Newtown, Abergavenny and Machynlleth. There were obvious sensitivities surrounding Machynlleth, so Rhiwbina was chosen (with the support of the HLF and CADW). Newtown and Abergavenny are well advanced in their work, and we hope that with the support of local people, the Rhiwbina characterisation project, under the title Explore Rhiwbina will also be successful.
At present the project group, which is at the moment composed of Rhiwbina Civic society members, are just beginning a pilot study of the Lon-Y-Deri area-toward the bottom of Lon-Y-Deri and up to Heol Llanishen Fach and between Heol-Y-Deri and the street. So, if you see some groups of people walking around the area, staring and taking photographs don't be alarmed!
If any residents have any information or memories that you would like to share with the groups, please leave a comment below and I will pass it on for you. Once this pilot is completed and written up, the plan is to hold a public meeting in Rhiwbina to explain the project and the findings so far and also to encourage anyone else in Rhiwbina to join in the project, as the intention is to survey/explore the whole of Rhiwbina. I will be sure to post further details about when the public meeting will take place as soon as I receive further information.
At present the project group, which is at the moment composed of Rhiwbina Civic society members, are just beginning a pilot study of the Lon-Y-Deri area-toward the bottom of Lon-Y-Deri and up to Heol Llanishen Fach and between Heol-Y-Deri and the street. So, if you see some groups of people walking around the area, staring and taking photographs don't be alarmed!
If any residents have any information or memories that you would like to share with the groups, please leave a comment below and I will pass it on for you. Once this pilot is completed and written up, the plan is to hold a public meeting in Rhiwbina to explain the project and the findings so far and also to encourage anyone else in Rhiwbina to join in the project, as the intention is to survey/explore the whole of Rhiwbina. I will be sure to post further details about when the public meeting will take place as soon as I receive further information.
Further information can be found by clicking here and here. Information from the Civic Trust Wales.
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