The Westminster Retable is one of the most important examples of English church panel painting and it is a Gothic masterpiece.

Peers and MPs from the All Party Parliamentary Arts and Heritage Group have proposed to visit Birmingham to inspect Pugin’s legacy on their next explorative field trip. Lord Crathorne chairs the group and Lord Cormack is its president. Pugin’s work in Birmingham includes St Mary’s College Oscott on the border…

Comment in Architects’ Journal Nick Corbett of Transforming Cities

“I loved it with an intense love… I took the idea of hobbits from the village people and children.” JRR Tolkien.

It is at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, amongst the magnificent ruins of the castle, that you will find the remains of the royal apartments built 1373-80 by one of England’s most flamboyant characters, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, third son of King Edward III.     When John of Gaunt’s first…

John Harman, who became Bishop Vesey, left a unique legacy. He was born at Moor Hall Farm in Sutton Coldfield, the son of a farmer, 550 years ago. He became a visionary developer, planner, Bishop, and Statesman, who attended the Field of the Cloth of Gold summit in France, with…

Under the Localism Act 2011, a town council may produce a development plan for its area. This has implications for big cities containing historic towns and villages that wish to assert their identity, or which wish to make decisions more locally. 

Tesco is a part of Britain’s geography, with a store in every postcode area, but now that profits have fallen for the first time in twenty years, the supermarket giant is asking itself, what do we stand for?

You are invited to dinner in the shadow of Augustus Pugin at Saint Mary’s Convent, Lozells, Birmingham

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a charge on new development to fund infrastructure that the local community wants.