There’s a chance for residents as well as businesses to find out more tomorrow about the City of London’s top priority programme, Destination City, and to offer some ideas on how it may make the Square Mile a better place to live as well as work and visit. Earlier posts here. The £2.5 million annual … Continue reading “Destination City workshop can explore benefits for Square Mile residents”
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 … Continue reading “City launches its destination brand and website”
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 … Continue reading “Why I think the first Neighbourhood Forum for the City is a good idea”
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 … Continue reading “Will a vision for future Fleet Street help counter WFH?”
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.
A report to Culture, Heritage and Libraries Committee tells us about the website and brand – but little about the substance of Destination City.
The City Corporation is set to approve plans for the spectacular new square that I reported last year. The scheme will transform the southern end of King Edward Street, in front of the new Panorama St Paul’s development on the site of the former BT headquarters. The developer is expected to make a contribution. The … Continue reading “New City square near St Paul’s set for approval”
Proposals for the City’s first neighbourhood forum are a good idea – but residents outside Barbican and Golden Lane Estates need to have influence too.
Residents on the two major estates in the north west of the City have made the bold move of proposing a forum with powers to develop its own plan for the neighbourhood.