News

03/Mar/2010
Gloucester 'Options Roadshow'
The Options Roadshows are being organised by Gloucester Works and supported by The Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company (GHURC), Gloucester City Council and local housing associations
26/Feb/2010
Proposed Language Immersion Centre, Blackfriars site, Commercial Road, Gloucester
Design proposals have been sufficiently developed to invite comments from members of the public, residents, businesses and any other interested parties. To facilitate the consultation process a public display has been arranged at Brunswick Baptist Church, Southgate Street
22/Feb/2010
Gloucester’s Merchants Quay building to be demolished
Developer Crest Nicholson has announced that it is planning the imminent demolition of the 1980s Merchants Quay building at Gloucester Docks in order to begin the development of a new building which will provide more homes and increased retail opportunities on the site.
15/Feb/2010
Community’s Big Response to Record Clutch Clinic
More than 80 people came forward to help Gloucester City Council, Heritage Service record the old Clutch Clinic, Commercial Road, before demolition later this year to make way for a new £5 million Language Immersion Centre, making it the biggest community research project ever done in Gloucester.
01/Feb/2010
Big Boost in City Regeneration Knowledge
Thousands of people across Gloucester have received information on the City’s regeneration, new homes and job opportunities being created, - and this number is set to rise significantly in 2010
11/Jan/2010
Gloucester’s Changing Landscape Revealed
An advertising campaign has been launched to highlights Gloucester’s changing landscape since regeneration began in 2005. The series of posters displayed across the city on advertising sites, buses and in The Citizen, show how derelict land has been successfully reclaimed for the benefit of those living, working and visiting the City.
11/Jan/2010
Win a £100 voucher to Shop in Gloucester
Test your knowledge of how the city has changed and you could be in with the chance to win a £100 voucher to shop in Gloucester. Three lucky winners will each receive a £100 shopping voucher, kindly donated by Gloucester’s three largest shopping malls: Gloucester Quays, Kings Walk and The Mall.
21/Dec/2009
Funky Loos and Sports Hotel say pupils
Ideas ranged from improved and funky new public loos, more child-friendly facilities, a glass-built sports and leisure hotel with an ice-rink in the basement and swimming pools, football pitches, badminton courts and more...
16/Dec/2009
Local People to Record City Building before Demolition
Local people can uncover Gloucester’s industrial heritage for themselves in January as Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company (GHURC) and Gloucester City Council’s Heritage Service call for help in recording the old Clutch Clinic site in Commercial Rd, before it is demolished to make way for a new £5 million Language Immersion Centre.
14/Dec/2009
Regeneration is a big hit in St Paul’s School
When Sam Hoad, Community Engagement Manager visited St Pauls School on 2nd December she told the pupils all about Gloucester’s ongoing regeneration in a way which made it plain and simple to understand
24/Nov/2009
Regeneration for the Next Generation
Parents and teachers will come together at Central Technology College on Monday 14 December at 6.30pm when 86 Year 7 students pitch their ideas on how to bring Gloucester’s regeneration to life for young people to a panel of experts.
11/Nov/2009
No Buried Treasure at Blackfriars
The dig on the site of the former ‘Clutch Clinic’ on Commercial Road in Gloucester and organised by the Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company (GHURC), has been the most thorough excavation of the site for decades and was carried out to establish how much, if any, of the medieval Priory buildings remain below existing ground level on the site.
10/Nov/2009
Iconic sculpture chosen for Gloucester Docks
A bold new sculpture designed by international sculptor Wolfgang Buttress has been chosen to become the centrepiece artwork of the regenerated Gloucester Docks.
05/Nov/2009
New dockside campus for Gloucestershire College boosts local economy by up to £ 15 million
Gloucestershire College’s relocation to Gloucester docks two years ago has contributed between £12.66 million and £15.58 million to the local economy, according to an independent economic impact assessment report published today.
29/Oct/2009
£5million Language Centre Boosts Gloucester’s Regeneration
A new £5million Language Immersion Centre will be built on the former Clutch Clinic, Blackfriars site in Gloucester.
26/Oct/2009
Royal Seal of Approval for City’s Regeneration
Gloucester’s regeneration work got the ultimate Royal seal of approval last week as The Queen sailed up the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal into Gloucester Docks to see its progress.
21/Oct/2009
Best Possible News for the City says Chris Oldershaw, CEO
“News that the South West RDA (Regional Development Agency) has committed in excess of £11 million to give Gloucester the facelift it richly deserves is the best possible news for the City.
20/Oct/2009
Knight in shining armour for Gloucester?
Jim Knight MP, Minister of State Dept for Work and Pensions and Regional Minister for the South West came to see Gloucester’s regeneration for himself recently to view the progress being made
20/Oct/2009
£11.2 million for Gloucester City Centre Regeneration
The regeneration of Gloucester city centre has been given a major boost today (Monday October 19) by the announcement of £11.2 million of investment by the South West RDA (Regional Development Agency).
07/Oct/2009
Dig Flags Up Stone Floor
Archaeologists have uncovered a previously unseen stone flagged floor, which is probably 700-800 years’ old, close to Blackfriars Priory. The archaeological dig, organised by the Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company, is being carried out to establish how much, if any, of the medieval Priory buildings remain below existing ground level on the site.