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2022 Awards
2022 Awards
In its 15th year, a total of ninety local initiatives have been presented with the CPRE Gloucestershire Award since 2007, from farm shops and community projects to wildlife reintroduction and affordable housing.
Here’s our proud 2022 recipients:
Ashleworth Hub – Tewkesbury Borough
New owners of Ashleworth village shop have expanded the enterprise into the Ashleworth Hub.
The original buildings have been sympathetically repurposed to provide an attractive shop, deli and post office and a small art gallery fitting round an external space that gives an outdoor extension to the café. The Hub is licenced and is now a focus for community activities. It is proving a great success.
Citation: For an exemplar project initially to safeguard a village shop, but whose brief has now grown to draw in many aspects of village life to become an outstandingly vibrant and cohesive community asset.
Barnwood Park Environmental Improvements – City of Gloucester
Barnwood Park and Arboretum is a six-hectare open space bisected by the Wotton Brook. This innovative project
has reduced flood risk by increasing the flood storage capacity of the park through excavation of wetland scrapes. Further improvements have included the creation of a wildflower meadow and planting to ensure a natural appearance of the water areas
Citation: For partnership working delivering improvement of a much-valued park achieving flood risk reduction, biodiversity enhancement and public access and interest benefits.
Destination Lydney Harbour
Lydney Harbour was a thriving hub of activity transporting coal mined in the Forest of Dean.
This activity ceased in the 1960s and the area became increasingly derelict. In a partnership led by Forest of Dean District Council, the harbour area has been transformed into an attractive visitor destination and its links with Lydney town greatly enhanced
Citation: For successful collaborative working to improve the environment of a significant historic Severnside location giving it new life, making it attractive for visitors and water-related activities, and stimulating wider economic regeneration.
Leckhampton Hill and Charlton Kings Common Partnership Management – Cheltenham Borough
Leckhampton Hill and Charlton Kings Common comprise 66 hectares of calcareous
grassland, geological exposures and industrial heritage from quarrying. Designated an SSSI and crossed by the Cotswold Way over 200,000 people visit the area annually. Led by Cheltenham Borough Council and the Friends of Leckhampton Hill and Charlton Kings Common with input from the Cotswold Voluntary Wardens and much community involvement, achievements include re-establishing grazing, rebuilding drystone walls and enabling access for all.
Citation: For the successful planning and management by partners and volunteers of a large and complex site achieving multiple objectives including access for all, biodiversity enhancement and landscape improvements.
St James the Great Church, Stoke Orchard, Wall Paintings Conservation Project
The church of St James the Great was built in about 1160. Its most remarkable feature is 28 medieval wall-paintings
in the nave. Between the 15th and 18th centuries they were overpainted. Exposed and first restored in the 1950s the paintings were deteriorating. They have now been meticulously cleaned and repaired so rescuing a unique cultural resource and securing its future.
Citation: In recognition of the foresight and tenaciousness that was needed to plan this restoration project, to raise the finance required to commission the restoration expertise to conserve the images, provide training for future conservators, and develop visitor interpretation.
