Derek Lopez's Page

Where are you from?

Norman Cross Paterborough PE 7 3TB

Website

https://www.normancrossgallery.com

Have you lived in Peterborough long?

Yes

What is your own vision for Peterborough?

Make Big Plans and Think Big and in the words of: Daniel Burnham
“Make no Little Plans”They have no magic to stir man’s blood and probablywill not be realized.Make big plans. Aim high and work remembering that a noble, logicaldiagram once recorded will never die, but long after we have gonewill be a living thing asserting itself with ever growing insistency .Remembering that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that will stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon be beauty.”Daniel Burnham – Architect On the Vision and Building of the City of Chicago.

One thing you'd like to change about the place?

Too many Focus Groups, too many meetings, constent comissions and reviews, Lost of talk with little change!
'We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them' One can only hope that C.P. is the beginning of Action for Change in our city.

What areas of the Citizen Power project are you most interested in?

Peterborough Arts and Social Change

What's your favourite place to eat in Peterborough?

Don't really have one

Favourite place to go?

The River

If a Martian came to Peterborough, what would you show him/her/it to explain what the place was about?

The Cathedral - Our Vision and Heritage from the past as becon for embracing our vision for the future and place where all human souls can unite.

Tell us some more about yourself

I am a champion for the arts, heritage and culture for our city and rather than talk about the arts I opened a Art gallery on the former site of the Napoleonic Prison Depot at Norman Cross funded by me - 'As he who speaks of art must show his vision for all to see, DL