We send all our members and supporters very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.
We hope you found the emails we have sent out during 2024 both interesting and informative and that walkers enjoyed the walks led by John Curry. Thank you for your support. Please see below for some of the activities we have been involved in 2024.
We have made regular posts on Facebook, aiming to celebrate the many interesting and positive aspects of Harlow. You can follow us at https://www.facebook.com/HarlowCivicSociety.
Items have included:
- The Alberni Quartet with our blue plaque
- Our Lady of Fatima Church
- Our AGM and talk on ‘Building for the Future: Lessons from the New Towns’
- Lord Stephen Taylor
- Harlow Town Station
- Various housing areas
- Dame Sylvia Crowe
- and many more…
We are also on Instagram at
https://www.instagram.com/harlowcivicsociety
where you can see many recent photos of places around our town.
We are looking further at what activities we should focus on to best influence developments and how we can expand our membership to increase our impact. Please send us your ideas about what you think would make a difference to contact@harlowcivicsociety.org.uk.
In 2025 we will be unveiling two new Blue Plaques – to architect John Graham and to Stan Newens, former MP and MEP and our founding Chair. Dates and details to follow.
We will be holding a joint event with New Arts Harlow on November 20th 2025 on ‘Harlow Past, Present and Future’. We are planning an evening of films and discussion covering the Arts, the built and green environment and societal changes. Watch out for further details later next year.
Please see below if you are interested in visiting Our Lady of Fatima Church.
We wish you a happy, peaceful and healthy Christmas and New Year.
Visit to Our Lady of Fatima
Ann Flint is planning a visit to this wonderful church – please send an email to annflint@hotmail.com if you or your friends are interested. It will be sometime in the early part of 2025.
Please see our facebook post on Our Lady of Fatima here:
A Look Back at 2024…
Here are some of the activities that we have been involved with in 2024:
- Unveiled a Blue Plaque to honour Lord Stephen Taylor of Harlow at the Harlow Campus of the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
- Partnered with Chris Skipworth from the University of East Anglia for a Film Screening on ‘Amateur Cinema and the Built Environment’ at The Playhouse.
- Had a stall at the community event at Harlow Museum where we publicised our Blue Plaques and asked for suggestions for future ones.
- Publicised the work of the Society in an article in the CM17 magazine.
- Rowan Gilbert from the Town and Country Planning Association spoke at our AGM on ‘Building for the Future: Lessons from the New Towns’.
- John Curry led two walks: around the Town Park and from Bush Fair.
- Met with Harlow Council Planners and discussed: Town Centre Regeneration; the Arts and Cultural Quarter; Garden Town plans; Housing design and affordability; restarting our Harlow Architectural and Design Award; and Parndon Hall.
- Met with Naisha Polaine (former Director of Harlow and Gilston Garden Town) to discuss plans and issues.
- Responded to planning applications for the Arts and Cultural Quarter and Harlow Museum.
- Responded to the the government consultation on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework.
- We are one of the Harlow Council formal planning consultees and are asked for our views on significant planning appellations and consultations.
Our Committee
A reminder of the members of our committee elected at the AGM.
Chair Tony Evans
Treasurer Phil Hardcastle
Secretary Annalise Taylor
Committee Moira Jones, Barbara Burge,
Frank Jackson, Peter Mountsteven,
Robin McCartney, Jake Shepherd
We would welcome new members of the committee. If you are interested please email us at contact@harlowcivicsociety.co.uk.