Exploring the GREAT BELT: Urban Design, Sustainability, and Heritage

Join us for the next BPT X RIBA Bristol and Bath Midweek Monthly:

Welcome to the Great Belt!

We will be talking about the green, grey, and great belt, and exploring the potential for harmonising homes, industry, nature, and heritage. 🏡🌿✨

Maysa Phares Phares, Senior Associate Urban Designer at Studio Egret West will explore what the GREAT BELT looks beyond the “green vs. grey” debate - the aim is not to choose between nature and development, but to imagine the best use of land to support a growing, resilient, energising, accessible, thriving and sustainable future.

Facilitated by Alex Sherman FRSA CEO Bath Preservation Trust our panel will be joined by:

Andrew Grant Landscape Architect, founder and director of Grant Associates Grant Associates.

Professor Marion Harney Professor in Building and Landscape Conservation University of Bath and Chair of the City of Bath World Heritage Site Advisory Board.

Hamish Evans farmer and head grower, Middle Ground Growers.

Come along and join the conversation!

🗓️ Date: 3rd June 2026
🕕 Time: 5:30pm (Doors) | 6pm (Talk starts)
📍 Venue: No. 1 Royal Crescent
🎟️ Tickets:
#sustainability #landscape #greenbelt #sustainabledevelopment #greybelt RIBA South West Region RIBA Bristol & Bath | Bristol Society of Architects Helen Carey RIBA Eleanor Young