Pride of Place

Reinforcing sense of place and creating pride of place.

A popular and lively City Centre needs a range of quality shopping, leisure and cultural facilities. But the distinctiveness of a place is at least as much a product of the buildings, streets and spaces that are a legacy of its unique history. Opportunities need to be grasped to reinforce this sense of place when shopping areas begin to resemble each other. And it all needs to be properly looked after by the City Council, by property owners, leaseholders and users.

The Civic Society

• continues to work with the City Council to enhance the sense of arrival into the City Centre through the design and implementation of suitable entrance schemes, taking full advantage of the bridge 'gateways' to the centre. (We are working with the City Council towards achieving the illumination of Crescent Bridge as a first step).
• seeks to ensure that excessive advertising does not clutter city streets.
• seeks to ensure that the City Council applies high standards of care to the public spaces in the city centre.
• monitors and comments on planning applications where required
• produced its book Peterborough and Its Villages in Detail, received with much critical acclaim
• successfully run a Blue Plaques programme and complimentary Blue Plaques booklet, both of which received with much positive comment
• presses owners of public clocks to properly maintain them.
• has campaigned to secure retention and relocation of threatened Victorian lamp-posts.

Fortunately, some of the more unusual signs from the past are carefully preserved!