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Discover the City the City of London Visitor Destination Strategy (2019-2023)
M Discover the City The City Of London Visitor Destination Strategy (2019-2023) Draft Commissioned by: City of London Corporation Written by: Carmel Dennis and Richard Smith Edited by: Flagship Consulting RJS Associates Ltd E: [email protected] 1 Foreword “Our role in presenting the City, and indeed London, as an unparalleled world-class destination remains steadfast. We are blessed to be custodians of such an asset.” With over 2,000 years of experience in welcoming the world, the City has always been, and continues to be, one of the most historic, yet innovative destinations, welcoming business and leisure visitors from across the globe. Nationally, it leads all English local authorities for its use of heritage to foster a distinctive identity and enjoys the number one spot for engagement in culture, as identified in the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce’s (RSA) latest Heritage Index (2016), and in the Government-commissioned Active Lives Survey conducted by Ipsos MORI in 2017. This is the City of London Corporation’s fourth Visitor Strategy, its first was produced in 2007 and its most recent in 2013. Since that last strategy, huge progress has been made in delivering its vision – to significantly develop our visitor economy and, in so doing, enhance London’s attractiveness as place to visit and do business. In 2017, the City recorded increases against the strategy’s baselines of 19% in visits to its various attractions, 107% in visitors overall1, and 109% in visitor spend. Today, the sector is estimated to support over 18,000 jobs in the City. -
Beyond the Compact City: a London Case Study – Spatial Impacts, Social Polarisation, Sustainable 1 Development and Social Justice
University of Westminster Duncan Bowie January 2017 Reflections, Issue 19 BEYOND THE COMPACT CITY: A LONDON CASE STUDY – SPATIAL IMPACTS, SOCIAL POLARISATION, SUSTAINABLE 1 DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Duncan Bowie Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning and Transport, University of Westminster [email protected] Abstract: Many urbanists argue that the compact city approach to development of megacities is preferable to urban growth based on spatial expansion at low densities, which is generally given the negative description of ‘urban sprawl’. The argument is often pursued on economic grounds, supported by theories of agglomeration economics, and on environmental grounds, based on assumptions as to efficient land use, countryside preservation and reductions in transport costs, congestion and emissions. Using London as a case study, this paper critiques the continuing focus on higher density and hyper-density residential development in the city, and argues that development options beyond its core should be given more consideration. It critiques the compact city assumptions incorporated in strategic planning in London from the first London Plan of 2004, and examines how the both the plan and its implementation have failed to deliver the housing needed by Londoners and has led to the displacement of lower income households and an increase in spatial social polarisation. It reviews the alternative development options and argues that the social implications of alternative forms of growth and the role of planning in delivering spatial social justice need to be given much fuller consideration, in both planning policy and the delivery of development, if growth is to be sustainable in social terms and further spatial polarisation is to be avoided. -
Disambiguating Language Attitudes Held Towards Sociodemographic Groups and Geographic Areas in South East England
Disambiguating language attitudes held towards sociodemographic groups and geographic areas in South East England Amanda Cole [email protected] Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. This paper has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to editorial input by Cambridge University Press, in Journal of Linguistic Geography published by Cambridge University Press. Copyright Cambridge University Press. 1 ABSTRACT Using a novel, digitized method, this paper investigates the language attitudes of 18- to 33-year-olds in South East England. More broadly, this paper demonstrates that disambiguating the language attitudes held towards sociodemographic groups and geographic areas is paramount to understanding the configuration of language attitudes in an area, particularly, for areas with high cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. A total of 194 respondents evaluated the speech of 102 south-eastern speakers. Results reveal an imperfect mapping between language attitudes held towards geographic areas and speakers from these areas. Although East London and Essex are the most negatively evaluated areas, speakers’ demographic and identity data is the primary factor conditioning language attitudes. Across South East England, working-class and/or BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) speakers, as well as those who identify their accent in geographically marked terms are evaluated most negatively, which is compounded if they are from East London or Essex. Keywords: language attitudes; accents in South East England; solidarity and social status; perceptual dialectology; standard language ideology 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Analysing Language Attitudes in their Social and Geographic Context In language attitude and perceptual dialectology work, linguists are often presented with the consideration of how to disambiguate language attitudes held towards geographic areas and sociodemographic groups. -
Super Prime Home Counties Lettings Winter | 2016/17
SUPER PRIME HOME COUNTIES LETTINGS WINTER | 2016/17 Changes to taxation and greater flexibility from landlords means activity in the super prime rental market across the Home Counties is buoyant, as Jemma Scott tells Oliver Knight One beneficiary of recent changes to For landlords, yields in the region of 3% stamp duty has been the luxury lettings to 4% are attainable for the best-in-class Wentworth, Virginia Water: £22,500 PCM sector. Both supply and demand have risen super prime properties. as higher purchase costs at the top-end of The super prime lettings market in the the sales market make buyers increasingly Home Counties is concentrated on a price sensitive. relatively small number of areas primarily Knight Frank analysis of the super prime in Ascot, Virginia Water, Cobham and Esher, (£15,000-plus/month) market across as figure 1 shows. the Home Counties shows that the There is a strong correlation between number or properties available for rent the market and proximity to international has increased by 56% so far in 2016 schools such as ACS Egham, ACS Cobham compared to last year. Hurst, Berkshire: £25,000 PCM and TASIS, the American school, with The number of viewings conducted above education a big driver at the top end of Super Prime Lettings Team this level by Knight Frank offices has also the market. ‘Try-before-you-buy’ tenants The Knight Frank Super Prime lettings team more than doubled year-on-year, while the who want to get to know an area before provides a unique service to clients and tenants number of tenancies agreed in 2016 committing to a purchase are another key with property interests upwards of £15,000 per is comfortably higher than in both 2015 source of demand. -
The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE MAKING OF THE MODERN METROPOLIS: EVIDENCE FROM LONDON Stephan Heblich Stephen J. Redding Daniel M. Sturm Working Paper 25047 http://www.nber.org/papers/w25047 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 September 2018 We are grateful to Bristol University, the London School of Economics, and Princeton University for research support. Heblich also acknowledges support from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Grant No. INO15-00025. We would like to thank Victor Couture, Jonathan Dingel, Ed Glaeser, Vernon Henderson, Petra Moser, Leah Platt-Boustan, Will Strange, Claudia Steinwender, Jerry White, Christian Wolmar and conference and seminar participants at Berkeley, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Dartmouth, EIEF Rome, German Economic Association, Harvard, MIT, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University College London (UCL), Urban Economics Association (UEA), Vienna, Yale, Zoom Urban Seminar, and Zurich for helpful comments. We would like to thank David Green for sharing printed copies of the Henry Poole data and T. Wangyal Shawa for his help with the GIS data. We would also like to thank the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, the British Library (BL), the British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES) at the London School of Economics, the Guildhall Library, London Metropolitan Archives (LMA), and the Omnibus Society for their help with data. Finally, we are grateful to Charoo Anand, Iain Bamford, Horst Braeunlich, Dennis Egger, Andreas Ferrara, Ben Glaeser and Florian Trouvain for excellent research assistance. The usual disclaimer applies. -
Housing in the South East
House of Commons South East Regional Committee Housing in the South East First Report of Session 2009–10 Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 30 March 2010 HC 403 Published on 7 April 2010 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £22.00 The South East Regional Committee The South East Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine regional strategies and the work of regional bodies. Current membership Dr Stephen Ladyman MP (Labour, South Thanet) (Chairman) Ms Celia Barlow MP (Labour, Hove) David Lepper MP (Labour, Brighton, Pavilion) Gwyn Prosser MP (Labour, Dover) Mr Andrew Smith MP (Labour, Oxford East) Powers The committee is one of the Regional Committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publication The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/se.cfm. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Sîan Woodward (Clerk), Duma Langton (Inquiry Manager), Leena Mathew (NAO Adviser), Emma Sawyer (Senior Committee Assistant), Ian Blair (Committee Assistant), and Anna Browning (Committee Assistant). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the South East Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, -