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Destination City: good for visitors … what about residents too?
July 17, 2023 – 3:40 pm
The Culture, Heritage and Libraries committee held a wide-ranging discussion today following a presentation about the vision for Destination City, which I wrote about earlier. Here’s some of the issues, and a suggestion on where best to explore the pros and cons of the programme for residents. Previous post about Destination City vision Presentation slides read more
£60,000 community fund launched for groups in City’s Culture Mile
July 17, 2023 – 1:00 pm
Grants of up to £5000 are available to community groups, charities and social enterprises in the north west of the City of London. The Culture Mile Business Improvement District has launched the Community Fund through ActionFunder, with a commitment of £60,000. “Through this community fund, we seek to support a breadth of local projects that read more
Discussing what planning can do for Destination City
June 27, 2023 – 8:34 pm
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
Resident engagement with Destination City and the new BID – official advice
April 2, 2023 – 1:13 pm
In January I attended a City-wide Residents meeting with the City Corporation, and asked the chair of policy Chris Hayward how we could best engage with developments planned in the north west cultural district of the Square Mile. Here’s the exchange. The Destination City programme is taking over much of the work of the Culture read more
City Corporation plans a Reset to engage residents and Belonging for workers
February 22, 2023 – 2:29 pm
The City of London is planning to spend £150,000 on a “Residential Reset” to engage better with the 8600 people living in the Square Mile. Proposals go to Policy and Resources Committee on February 23. The Committee is also recommended to approve £70,000 on The City Belonging Project to support engagement with the estimated 587,000 read more