The Halifax Civic Trust 2024 Award has been presented to Rotary Halifax for its creation on Beacon Hill. The idea to showcase the beautiful view was made reality as part of the rotary centenary for 2022 and involved design, fundraising and liaison with Calderdale Council . The project was completed in May 2023.
Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Halifax Courier, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Alan Goodrum, chair of Halifax Civic Trust, said: “Halifax Rotary should be commended on an imaginative design, high standard of workmanship, maintenance, community basis and valuable interpretation of the town as it now is. "The development is a worthy winner of the Halifax Civic Trust 2024 Award”.
The working group from Halifax Rotary included Michael Steele, Bryan Harkness, Ken Robertshaw, Andrew Marshall and architect Grant Stott . Mr Harkness said: “We are delighted to have received the award and trust the development at Beacon Hill will be enjoyed by townsfolk and visitors for many years to come.” Advertisement Advertisement Highly commended by Halifax Civic Trust was the Greenwood Mills development, which has seen a fire-ravaged mill in Halifax town centre turned into apartments.
Mr Goodrum said: “Prospect Estates Ltd should be highly commended on the sympathetic conversion of the fire-damaged Greenwoods Mill, originally built in the 1850s and used as a wool merchants by one of the oldest family bus.
