Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

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Knitting is said to be cool these days...

OK, I'm only the messenger.

 

Actually my dad used to crochet, and old wooden cotton bobbin, 4 small nails in one end, then any old knitting wool my mam didn't want. He would thread the wool around the nails and into the hole in the middle of the bobbin and out the other end came a long snake of wool. Then he would make tea pot cosies, table mats and other stuff with the wool snake thing. He would sit watching the tv at the same time, I'm going back to the late 50's early 60's, and no I never followed suit.

 

They should put up a gate on Beverley rerd, that'd keep the ****ers out of the town centre altogether.

 

I thought they were already there, and they were disguised as Christmas Trees in December?

 

Suppose it will be intelligence led when they are put down or not.

Obz eehaws gate was not led by any form of intelligence

 

They look more HKR led, have the black & whites complained yet?

 

Gwillum will be chairing a phone in to discuss this insult to the black and whites.

 

The red banded ones were temporary and there before and since Christmas. The first photo shows the new, permanent ones.

 

Perfect for drink driving. I'm in.

 

Looks like a good place to put a big screen for the world cup that car park and turned into a fan park for the 3 games england are in the world cup

 

Isn’t the screen in Princes Quay going to be showing the World Cup?

 

Popped intoday for a visit ~ thought it was 'quiet', though Princess Quay at least had some shops open & not boarded up
Ferens has a good exhibit of local art for sale

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/hulls-city-centre-crisis-figures-1400793

Is Hull's city centre in crisis? These figures show a worrying trend
City centre footfall cameras showed fewer people in the area compared to last year

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The number of people visiting Hull city centre in January and February has fallen compared to the same two months last year.

According to data from footfall cameras in the area, run by HullBID on key streets in the city centre, there has been a decrease in footfall in the city centre in the first two months of 2018 compared to 2017 and 2016.

Kathryn Shillito, city centre manager of HullBID, says the decrease reflects the national picture, which has seen major retailers including New Look, Toys R Us and Maplin announce store closures.

She says although some decrease after 2017 was “inevitable” many city centre retailers are bucking the downward trend by diversifying their service to customers.

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Shoppers in Whitefriargate
In 2018, the footfall cameras, based on a number of retail areas such as Jameson Street, registered 2,350,236 visits in January and 2,440,710 in February.

The total of 4,790,946 visits over the start of the year reflected a decrease of around 59,000 compared to the same period in 2017, when City of Culture events including Made in Hull and Blade were a major draw.

The footfall numbers for 2018 were however also less for the same period in 2016, when 4,836,906 visits were made.

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Ms Shillito said the current economic climate is difficult for retailers but believes independents in Hull are doing well compared to the national decline.

She said: “I think that the footfall cameras don’t paint a 100 per cent accurate picture of how city centre businesses are trading.

"They just look at the HullBID area, but we recognise that trade is difficult at the minute for a number of factors; changes to minimum wage, pension cost and the constant growth of online.

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Kathryn Shillito, city centre manager of Hull BID
“It shows footfall is down a little but we don’t have footfall counts for every street. This pattern is exactly what we are seeing at other regional cities too.

“What we have found is that people are looking for different experiences when they come into the city centre, with new family friendly ventures doing really well.

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“We have a lot of really successful independent business which are looking for ways to innovate and attract different customers. In the market, businesses that are diversifying are performing well and I think lots of other traders have seen that.

“You can’t escape the fact that the retail picture is changing. Places like Toys R Us, New Look, Bargain Booze are established but look like they have failed to adapt to the changing market.”

She says that a dip in footfall was “inevitable” after the 2017 City of Culture year ended, but that many Hull businesses have been successful by diversifying.

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The closing date for Toys'R'Us is still unknown
“2017 was an exceptional year,” Ms Shillito said. “We achieved something not many cities have generated a lot of excitement and attracted a lot of visitors. I think it was inevitable that in the early part of the year there would be a little bit of a dip.

“We spend a lot of going out and speaking to business owners, and although it does show the numbers have gone down, we speak to a lot of businesses that are thriving and doing some great stuff right now.

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“Hull’s changing we are going to see a lot more residential properties in the city centre, and businesses like Service Station on George Street have realised that and are looking to cater for it.

“We have businesses like The Brain Jar who have come to Hull and are trading really well. They are catering for people with all sorts of events and the manager told me that business is ‘fantastic’ at the minute.”

 

French knitting wasn't it ?