Lecture: Chester Leisure & Tourism | One City Vision

Excellent lecture at the Grosvenor Museum yesterday evening by Colin Potts of Destination Chester and University of Chester for Chester Civic Trust, exploring the strategies and thinking behind Chester’s urban design over the last 20 years, and the value of having one clear city vision.

Colin ended with a slide of the new Hospitality building we are currently delivering for Chester Racecourse with Kay Elliot, as an example of the great things happening in the city.

The city is ever evolving, and Lovelock Mitchell are very much involved in the next phase of the city’s Leisure and Tourism.

“Chester’s face is its fortune” said BDP’s founder, George Grenfell Baines, in 1964.

And long before that, in 1856, the Victorians were already acknowledging this.

“If Chester is to maintain its far-flung celebrity as one of the ‘wonder cities’ of England, if the great European and Transatlantic continents are still to fill our hotels, and the not too plenteous coffers of our tradesmen one course only is open to us. We must preserve inviolate our city’s rare attractions…”

(Journal of the Chester & North Wales Architectural, Archaeological & Historic Society – 1856).

What is fascinating is that this was before many of Chester’s most famous buildings even existed. It was before our founder T.M. Lockwood pioneered the black-and-white ‘vernacular revival’ Victorian architecture as we see it today, towards the end of the 19th century, with buildings such as 1 and 2 Bridge Street, and St Michael’s Arcade.

Lovelock Mitchell have been contributing to Chester’s face and fortune since 1860, and we’re excited to be directly involved in designing its next phase, maintaining a “Must-See European City” for future generations.
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