Hull's ambitious City Plan will be launched by High Steward of Kingston upon Hull, Lord Peter Mandelson, outlining the vision and projects that will provide a long-term prosperous future for the city and its residents. The launch at the University of Hull on 5 June will see Lord Peter Mandelson take to the stage to set the scene to over 300 local business people as to how the City Plan will transform Hull with 65 projects over the next 10 years. As keynote speaker, Lord Mandelson, will talk about his links to the city in his new role as an ambassador for Hull, and the city's ambitions for the future. Introducing and hosting the event will be Chair of the City Leadership Board, Tim Rix, who is also MD of JR Rix and Sons, a business which has been operating in Hull for five generations. During the launch members of the City Leadership Board and guest speakers who are backing the plan, will talk about the various elements of the Plan that, over the next ten years, will create 7500 jobs for local people, deliver £1 billion investment in the city, reduce the bills of every household, cut the city's carbon footprint by one million tonnes and reduce the welfare bill. Giving an overview and their backing to the plan guests will hear from: Lord Mandelson, President of the International Think Tank Policy Network and High Steward of Hull Hull's young people Councillor Stephen Brady, Leader of Hull City Council Right Honorable Alan Johnson MP for Hull West and Hessle In addition, members of the City Leadership Board will talk about the key elements of the plan: Harnessing all Hull's assets to become the leading UK Energy City Matt Jukes, ABP Port Director Hull & Goole Charlie Spencer, Chief Executive and Founder of the Spencer Group Kevin Walsh, Executive Director KCOM Making Hull a world-class visitor destination Sarah Longthorn, Director of WedgeWelly Professor Calie Pistorius, Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull Thomas Martin, Joint Managing Director of Arco Making residents money go further, early intervention and safeguarding Carolyn Burgess, Chief Executive of Language is Everything Dr Tony Banerjee, Chair of Hull Clinical Commissioning Group Bishop of Hull Right Revered Richard Frith Although the City Leadership Board and its partners agreed the idea of a Plan in the autumn of last year, now is prime time to launch it to show the vision of the future of the city and how everyone can get involved. To find out more about the City Plan visit www.hullcc.gov.uk/cityplan or follow the plan's progress on Twitter @energycityhull (#cityplan).
Some interesting stuff so far. The speeches have apparently been very impressive, Peter Mandleson(High Steward of Hull), Alan Johnson(MP), Tom Martin(Arco), Tim Rix(Rix Petroleum), Kevin Walsh(KCOM - who's pointed out that Hull will have the fastest broadband of any city in the UK and it's hoped this can used to develop a digital hub in the area and attract new digital technology development). The potential arrival of HMS Illustrius... please log in to view this image And lots of other things, mainly around the development of renewables and the creation of 10,000 jobs, some details here... http://www.thisishullandeastriding....tory-18718390-detail/story.html#axzz2VEZgtxIK
I have often slated KCOM in recent years for taking advantage of their effective monopoly, but they have got it right with fibre optic broadband and it is worth paying for.
They need to sort out Whitfriargate, i visited Trinity Leeds the other day and it's simple really, put a glass roof over the top and do up all the shop fronts making them more modern and glassy, hopefully that would then attract more business, lower the rent for a while or other incentives.
It was the launch of a grand scheme to improve employment opportunities, increase tourism and generate investment in the area over the next ten years. It wasn't a council meeting to talk about specific problem areas in the city(though I believe Castle Street was covered, as it's central to developing the water front and Fruit market). Not that most tweeters realised, most were tweeting about pot holes and dog **** on the pavements.
Not quite, all the units bar M&S are too small for modern retail use and it's not as simple as knocking them through to make them bigger. The best parts of Trinity are the bars. Alchemist is always rammed.
There's nothing wrong with the size of the units on Whitefriargate, the big problem was just the daft rents being charged that forced the retailers out(when the Prinny Quay opened, they put the rents up to match it, they didn't seem to realise that once they did that, everyone would just move there). There are many different sized buildings, making a roof difficult, but you wouldn't think it beyond the wit of man to find a way round such an issue(to be fair, funding it is probably more of an issue than actually building it) and it wouldn't need to cover the whole length of the street, the far end should have bars and restaurants that allow seating outside.
I worked on the city plan as St Stephens and the interchange were undergoing planning. I know for a fact that national retailers are not interested in Whitefriargate for that exact reason. It is only suitable for independent retailers.
Restaurants is worse. I have said for years Hull city centre must be the worst in the UK for eating out. Venn was a nice bar but that didn't last.
That's what I said, there's nothing wrong with the size of the units. The national retailers are already in St.Stephens and Prinny Quay/Prospect centre, what we need is some decent independent retail(and national niche retail) and some decent food/drink outlets, which is exactly what somewhere like Whitefriargate should be ideal for.
Few nice restaraunts and bars with outside seating down Whitfriargate, then try to attract bigger named retailers and general names which we lack such as John Lewis, Hollister etc. We have too many shops of the same type, the city centre is full of cash for gold shops once you get away from St Stephens
He was talking in comparison to Trinity, all national and international retailers bar 1 store, hence my response.
Like Prinny Ave, but with more shopping, rather than just being bars(and there aren't many decent places to eat down Prinny Ave, it's only decent for a drink). And you can't get someone like John Lewis down Whitefriargate, there no site anywhere near big enough. Prinny Quay's biggest mistake was not having an anchor tenant, John Lewis should have been that tenant.
The only thing keeping Prinny Quay going is Primark, and the main problem with that is the fact that most people who shop at Primark enter from the outside instead of walking through and looking at the other shops, well lack of shops
