Harlow Art Trust is organising a one day symposium on The future of public art  to be held on Saturday 14 September. For further details please see the information given below; there will be a wide range of excellent speakers. Booking is now open at the following link. Click here for booking via Eventbrite. A lot…

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Call for nominations for 2019 Harlow Architectural Design Awards For the fourth year we’re asking Harlow residents to look around and nominate the most beautifully designed new buildings of the year.   Harlow Architectural Design Awards, organised by Harlow Civic Society, aims to encourage architects, developers and property owners to make Harlow an even better and…

The facebook group Photos of Harlow-Old and New has a great exhibition of a selection of their photo archive at Harlow Museum until the 29th June. The museum is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9.30am to 3.30pm at Muskham Road, CM20 2LF. Do go along! Why not join the facebook group here.

Essex County Council is asking residents for their views on green spaces and infrastructure in Essex. The council has produced a draft Green Essex Strategy that considers how to develop quality green infrastructure and green spaces across Essex.

On May 9th, Michael Todhunter and his sister unveiled the Estate map of the Kingsmoor House estate, dating from the 1920s. This now hangs in the hallway of the recently converted Kingsmoor House. The map was kindly donated by the Todhunter family, who lived in the house between 1873 and 1953. The house has been…

There was an exhibition of the proposals at the Holiday Inn Express on Friday 10th May. A PDF of the display boards at the consulation can be downloaded from our Documents page here. You can submit comments on the consultation web site here.

The first in this year’s series of walks & talks took place on Thursday 25 April. This was from Lister House to the Parndon Wood Nature Reserve… John Curry

On Friday 5thApril a crowd of 50 or so people, gathered outside Granary Cottage in Mulberry Green for the unveiling of a plaque to Douglas Hayter. Harlow Civic Society has a policy of erecting plaques to significant contributors to the community. In the past these have included Sir Frederick Gibberd, two world-famous scientists and other…

This conference (12 March 2019) was aimed at exploring what lessons we can learn from the original New Towns to inform a new generation of Garden Towns. I was there on behalf of Harlow Civic Society, the only voluntary organisation represented. Representatives from Harlow Council: Councillors Mark Ingall and Danny Purton, and Brian Keene, Managing…