This evening’s City of London workshop on Destination City was well-worth attending – even though it turned out that it wasn’t much about Destination City. It was about a Plan. I should have paid more attention to the invitation page, which was clearly headed City Plan 2040 engagement programme. It said that workshops would run read more
Update June 20: the City issued a release highlighting the new website and listing Top 40 Things to Do in the birthplace of the capital. See end of post for more. The City Corporation has launched the brand and website for its Destination City programme, aimed at attracting more visitors and their spending. Previous Destination read more
Update: the City Corporation’s Planning and Transportation committee voted unanimously to approve the Neighbourhood Forum. Comments on the proposed Neighbourhood Forum in the north west of the City are due in by June 21. I’ve previously written about being in two minds over the proposal that covers the Barbican and Golden Lane Estates. If the read more
At yesterday’s Farringdon Within Ward public meeting City Corporation Member Eamonn Mullally helpfully handed out the latest report from Fleet Street Quarter, the local Business Improvement District. It has a clear and inspiring vision for the future, if you take a property perspective, which is its focus. The report “reveals how a ground-breaking development pipeline read more
Here’s a round-up of stories that may be of interest to the Ward meeting on June 8.
Clerkenwell Design Week provided an opportunity to promote Footways maps about Radical Clerkenwell and Historic Clerkenwell, by embedding QR codes in pavement markers.