Cardiff Civic Society Mission Statement

Cardiff Civic Society campaigns for the protection of our fantastic urban green spaces and our built heritage, as well as fighting against inappropriate development. In recent years we have fought ...
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Cardiff Council failure to protect mature trees.

This is a link to a Western Mail piece on Cardiff Council failure to protect mature trees. Civic society in attack on council’s tree policy ...
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Vigil by Suffolk House trees – Tuesday 14 January 2020

At 5.30pm on Tuesday 14 January 2020 there will be a vigil by the Suffolk House trees on Romilly Road. Please attend and bring candles and banners. This follows a ...
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Save the Trees event, City Hall, 3.45pm, 18 July 2019

As the next step in our campaign to save the mature trees at Suffolk House, Canton, Cardiff Civic Society has joined forces with Save Suffolk House Trees to persuade Cardiff’s ...
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Launch of Cardiff Meadows Project

Cardiff Civic Society is delighted to announce the launch of Cardiff Meadows Project/Ymgyrch Dolydd Caerdydd - aimed at providing essential habitat for threatened pollinators and declining mammals such as hedgehogs ...
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Protect Guildford Crescent

Protect Guildford Crescent Please write in to oppose this cynical plan to demolish the lovely, historic Guildford Crescent before the council can designate it a Conservation Area. Cardiff has lost ...
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Liveable Cities – Notes from the debate featuring Sir Simon Jenkins – 23rd November 2018

LIVEABLE CITIES NOTES FROM THE DEBATE FEATURING Sir Simon Jenkins A JOINT EVENT BETWEEN CARDIFF CIVIC SOCIETY (ccs) AND CARDIFF UNIVERSITY 23RD NOVEMBER 2018, Glamorgan Building INTRODUCTION As the fastest ...
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Canopy Cardiff/Canopi Caerdydd 2018/19 – more trees for the city

This year, Cardiff Civic Society aims to step up its tree planting project Canopy Cardiff/Canopi Caerdydd, to plant greater numbers of trees in the city. In recent years, the city ...
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Objection to Bradley Court – 17 story student block

Please can we ask as many people to write in to object to this development as soon as possible - the case will be heard on March 15. 28 February ...
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Press release from Trees for Cities, which mentions Cardiff Civic Society’s project for tree planting.

9 in 10 of people in Cardiff agree: we need to plant more trees than we cut down in the city Trees for Cities poll finds that 92% of Cardiff ...
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Protect Penhill Rise – letter sent to Cardiff Planning Dept.

14 November 2017 Dear Sir/Madam, Cardiff Civic Society has noted the sale by auction of Penhill Rise on Penhill Road. This is a landmark building on a prominent site in the local area.  In ...
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Why Utretcht has much to teach Cardiff

More or less the same size as Cardiff, the Dutch regional capital Utrecht knows a thing or two that Cardiff might have learnt before it gave consent for the BBC ...
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Updated: CCS asks Minister to Call-in Central Square planning application

Today's SW Echo gives substantial media coverage to the CCS following its letter to the Minister for Planning and Regeneration, Carl Sergeant  asking him to call in a planning application ...
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LDP Hearings, CCS Briefing notes and letter to Cardiff Councillors

Following the conclusion of the Inspectors' Hearings into Cardiff Council's Deposited Local Development Plan, CCS wrote to all council members - and others - setting out the Society's concerns. Attached ...
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