Past Triumphs

  • The Halifax Civic Trust was founded in 1962, but it was in 1978 that it achieved its greatest public recognition and its most completed victory.  The Trust successfully led the fight against the comprehensive redevelopment of part of the town centre by the developers Town and City Properties to create an Arndale centre. 

  • This huge shopping centre would have seen the obliteration of several listed buildings and Halifax's most popular street called Woolshops.  It would have also seen an end to far-reaching views from the town centre of the medieval parish church and the mighty Beacon Hill that looms over the town. 

  • The Trust hired its own firm of architects to produce an alternative scheme, at considerable financial risk and at the subsequent public inquiry the Arndale scheme was thrown out leading to the more modest and scaled down version which opened in 1983.

Awards

Awards are given annually to individuals or organisations responsible for high-quality new building, the reuse and restoration of old buildings, landscaping or any other work of a high standard which makes a significant improvement to the fabric of the town or countryside of Halifax.

Halifax Civic Trust Awards 1992-2007

For the full list of the award-winning schemes for the first 16 years of the Halifax Civic Trust Awards, please click here.