Swindon Civic Trust

“Eco development - ways to grow greener” is designed as an introductory talk to effective eco ‘action’ in existing homes and the potential benefits of sustainable buildings and infrastructure to a community.

Sally Harper will provide an understanding of effective energy efficient measures in existing homes and environmental design concepts within the sustainability agenda, such as adaptive, future-proofed, and ‘liveability’, for buildings and infrastructure. Her talk will also provide a brief overview of the planned ‘levers’ of change for a greater commitment to sustainable building.

Sally is a co-founder of The Seed-Group. The Seed-Group provides consultancy services to commercial organisations and private clients on low carbon and environment conscious design for buildings and people.

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Principles of Good Urban Design

How can we help new developments grow into happy, safe, inclusive communities?

The planned expansion of Swindon makes this a vital question for our town.

Holly Huber, Swindon Borough Council’s Community Planner, will address this issue in a lively talk at Heelis, the National Trust’s superb new offices near the Outlet Village.

Entry: £4 at the door, includes light refreshments, free to Swindon Civic Trust members
Venue: Heelis (the new National Trust Central Office) in Kemble Drive, Swindon

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Wild Flowers in Urban Spaces 

An illustrated talk by John Ball

John Ball who developed FAB (wild Flowers And Butterflies), explains how amazing abundance can be generated by helping wildflowers fill the spare nooks and crannies of an urban environment

John will describe what has been achieved at The Haven and many other Swindon sites to prove the leading edge ‘FAB’ concept; which aims to turn cities into bio-diverse reservoirs, to bring nature to peoples’ doorsteps.

So, with Swindon set to grow enormously over the next two decades, come and discuss what could be done to benefit both nature and people.

At 7.30 pm on Thursday 24 April at Heelis (the new National Trust Central Office) in Kemble Drive, Swindon

Entry: £4 at the door, includes light refreshments, free to Swindon Civic Trust members

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Swindon Night Vision, a talk and discussion about a joint project between Civic Trust consultants and the Borough Council on how to alleviate the problem of alcoholic over indulgence on Saturday nights in the town centre.

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At Heelis on 22 November.

AGM at 7.00 pm followed by the talk at 7.45 pm.

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We recorded Ken Oliver’s talk - click on the player below to listen to this.
( We had a few problem with the sound and lost a small section of the talk. As we didn’t have a microphone for the audience we have edited out the audience question but left in Ken’s answers. )