Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

Only a year to go before it reopens, exhibits going in at the rate of one a day methinks.


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Beautiful.

 

When I was at school we would have a church parade there every 4/6 weeks, was always a dull and gloomy place, freezing during the winter - looks like hell of a job; I was surprised to see that its actually at least fifty years younger than Trinity House.

 

Not freezing during winter now

They put in underfloor heating! (which is really good...I was laid on the floor in there watching the Science light show recently)

 

Drunk again??!!

 

‘Again’ would suggest I’d stopped once!

 

I was thinking he'd been to the beer festival.

 

I did go to one there drinking with my father in law

He ended up on the floor!

 

On his hassocks?


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Indeed

 

I’m reading this whilst Lionel Richie “Dancing on the Ceiling” is playing (not at home, in a bar), so the opposite.

 

Interesting
On 1 May 2025, voters will elect the first mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, who will lead a new combined authority for the region. The mayor and combined authority will hold powers over skills, transport, planning, economic development and control of a £13.3m annual investment fund.

Who are the candidates for mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire?
The leaders of the two constituent councils of the new combined authority are both candidates to become mayor. The Conservative candidate is Anne Handley, leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council since 2023.1 Mike Ross, who has led Hull City Council since 2022, is standing as the Liberal Democrat candidate.2 Handley and Ross were signatories on the devolution deal in November 2023.3

Labour’s candidate will be Margaret Pinder, a local parish councillor and unsuccessful parliamentary candidate in the 2024 general election.4

The Green Party’s candidate will be Kerry Harrison, who stood in the Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham constituency in the July 2024 general election.5

Richard Kelly is the Reform UK candidate.6 He is a businessman and chairman of Reform UK Hull.

What is the history of devolution to Hull and East Yorkshire?
From 1974 to 1996, Hull and East Yorkshire was part of the county of Humberside. Humberside was abolished in 1996 and split into four unitary authorities – Hull City, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.

These four unitary authorities and the Humber local enterprise partnership (LEP) signed a ‘city deal’ with the government in 2013.7 The Hull and Humber City Deal aimed to provide economic growth, increase skills and improve job opportunities through new funding and powers for the region.

Several proposals for devolution to Hull and East Yorkshire have been explored in recent years. A campaign for a ‘One Yorkshire’ devolution deal gained support from 18 of the region’s councils, but was rejected by the government in 2019.8 The government then pursued a cross-Humber combined authority, which was supported by Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire.9 This proposal was dropped in 2020, because North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire councils favoured forming a Greater Lincolnshire combined authority.10

Attention then turned to plans for a combined authority for Hull and East Yorkshire.

With concern that Hull and East Yorkshire faced being left behind as the only area in Yorkshire without a deal,11 a mayoral devolution deal was agreed in November 2023.12 The two councils voted to proceed with the deal in May and June 202413 and it was signed off by the government on 19 September 2024.14

The statutory instrument to create the MCA – the Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2025 – was laid before parliament on 4 December 202415 and is due to take effect by the end of January.

What is the Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority?
The Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority (HEYCA) is a legal body bringing together two local authorities: Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council.

HEYCA will be chaired by the new mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, who will be elected in May. Each local authority will be a ‘constituent member’ of the combined authority and will appoint two representatives.16 There will also be up to four non-constituent members without voting rights, including a representative of the business board and the Humberside police and crime commissioner.17

 

York and North Yorkshire Councils elected a regional mayor earlier this year, David Skaith. It's an interesting new model for local government that Whitehall has now committed to across England.

 

I'm strongly in favour of us catching up with this, metro mayors are always being interviewed across the North, we need the same voice.

 

Was Wetwang wilting without weatherman Whiteley ? Oops, meant happy Hudson !

 

A bit of decorating gone wrong ?

 

'It's a hacking knife, a tub of putty is at my feet, officer'.


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Get the armed response there, the ****er will soon obey.

 

Cock of the Walk tailors on the corner of parliament and Alfred Gelder looks really smart