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City of London Corporation local elections At the City of London Corporation local elections in March this as Chairman of the Planning & Transportation Committee and year the Broad Street team of Common Councilmen, Deputy John Scott as Chairman of the Markets Committee. John Bennett, Chris Hayward CC and John Scott CC were returned unopposed to serve another four years. They return to Guildhall with renewed enthusiasm, recognising that there are many challenges ahead on several The team, together with the Ward’s Alderman, Professor fronts which will affect the workings of the committees on Michael Mainelli, is one of the strongest in the City, all, in which they sit. 2016/17, serving as Chairmen of major City Corporation Committees, John Bennett as Chairman of the Board of the Below each Member provides an insight into his role in the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Chris Hayward coming four years.

DEPUTY JOHN BENNETT the position for 12 years. In late January well as many staff, so the School must this year his replacement, Lynne Williams, prepare itself for the changes ahead, I have now completed 12 years took up the post and in her first 100 days while maintaining its reputation as the as a Member for Broad Street has impressed us all with her dynamism top Conservatoire in the UK (Guardian and have found it to be the best and dedication. Universities Guide 2017) and one of the retirement job I could have top ten in the world (QS World imagined. In those 12 years University Rankings 2016). I have found that my main interests have become In the next four years I centred around education hope to be involved in the and culture. I have served development of a plan for on the Board of the City the Centre for Music, the of London Freemen’s brainchild of Sir Simon Rattle, School for most of my soon to be Music Director time as a Member, being of the London Symphony Chairman of the Board Orchestra, which is being for 4 years from 2009 to jointly sponsored by the LSO, 2013, I am also a member the Barbican Centre and of the Education Board, the Guildhall School, a truly the Culture, Heritage and exciting project which will Libraries Committee, the greatly enhance the City’s Barbican Centre Board and cultural offer. the Gresham Committee. This committee, together with the Mercers’ Company, CHRIS HAYWARD CC serves to administer the estate of Sir Thomas I am now beginning my Gresham, a 17th century second term as a Member for merchant and financier, Broad Street. In the four years whose wealth founded since I was elected I have Gresham College to provide been involved in many of the free education for ordinary City’s committees. I currently people. I also serve on sit on the Policy & Resources, the Cultural Hub Working Finance, Police, Licencing, and Party which is developing Standards Committees, and a joined-up strategy to also on the Education Board promote and enhance the and the Gresham Committee. cultural offerings in the City, My main role is as Chairman of including the museums, the Planning & Transportation art galleries, the Barbican Committee. This committee Centre and the Guildhall School. The finances of the School are now on oversees all City developments and the a firmer footing, but changes in national management of the roads and streets I am now in my final year as Chairman of government mean nothing is certain, in the Square Mile. I am passionate the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. so we must be alert to the challenges about tackling congestion, road safety, This has been a challenging role. My that lie ahead. Brexit provides a unique poor air quality and providing the best first task was to recruit a successor to the challenge for the School as more than Principal, Professor Barry Ife who has held 15% of students come from the EU, as Continued on back page Aldgate area improvements Change to the Aldgate traffic layout are now complete The overall aims of the Aldgate Highway Changes and with work on the major uplift to the area as a whole Public Realm Improvements Project are to: scheduled for completion by December of this year. • enhance safety for road users Highway improvements include pedestrian crossing • improve cycling routes points and easier navigation of bus services. • improve pedestrian routes and connections • introduce more greenery There is now two-way traffic on Aldgate High Street, • create new public space for events, leisure and play St Botolph Street, a section of Middlesex Street and • improve lighting in the area Minories. A section of Middlesex Street has also been closed to traffic at the junction with St Botolph Street. Sitting within Aldgate Square and complementing the two heritage listed buildings on either side, the Portsoken The highway changes are also enabling the creation of Pavilion will complete the scheme. A social enterprise two new public spaces – Aldgate Square and Eastern operator will run the facilities inside providing a new hub New network on the way public space. promoting events, leisure and play.

The City of London Corporation has The network will be more technically be invited to bid for the opportunity to announced a deal that will deliver a free, advanced than those found in other connect and will be selected based on public access WiFi network, offering internet leading global financial centres, including affordability and quality of service. The City access anywhere within the Square Mile. New York. State-of-the-art equipment Corporation has asked potential providers will provide speeds and see users able to include reduced payment options for The multi million pound project is one to enjoy high bandwidth services like residents on low incomes and benefits. of the largest investments in wireless video-calling and video on demand over infrastructure ever seen in London. free City WiFi following a one-time only registration. Protecting yourself Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd (CTIL) has been awarded Residents in the City Corporation’s or your firm from a major 15-year contract to roll-out and 12 central London housing estates will cybercrime manage the City of London’s new wireless also benefit from a new high speed network in conjunction with O2. The new internet service after plans to expand After this article was written the network will deliver wireless services across fibre optic broadband were given the NHS was hit with a ransomware all mobile networks for City businesses, green light earlier this year. cyber attack which reinforced residents and visitors. the importance of people or firms New state of the art equipment will be taking steps to try to avoid this type CTIL will build 4G mobile “small cells”, installed which will provide speeds of up of attack: which will be housed on City street to one gigabit at affordable prices, and • Install system and application furniture such as lampposts, street signs, see users able to enjoy high bandwidth updates on all devices as soon as buildings and CCTV columns to provide services like video on demand. they become available. enhanced mobile coverage at street • Install anti-virus software on all level, and ensure that the City is best The new broadband services will be rolled devices and keep it updated. placed to become an early adopter of out across the City Corporation’s social • Create regular backups of your 5G which is widely expected to become housing estates, which stretch across important files to a device that available in 2020. seven London boroughs including the City isn’t left connected to your of London, Hackney, Islington, Lambeth, network as any malware infection The City of London never stands still and CTIL will partner with O2 in building the Lewisham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets could spread to that too. nowhere is that more true than in the WiFi network which will be free for the housing more than 7,500 residents. For more detailed help go to: construction of new buildings. public to use. It will be fully operational getsafeonline.org/cityoflondonpolice by Autumn 2017. Up to five internet providers per estate will The City has always been a centre for ground breaking architecture and many of its buildings have become icons not just of London but of the UK as a whole. With this in mind, the City Corporation has updated its Designs of the times self-guided walk leaflet to include the Upgrade for eShot latest additions to the City’s architecture. And the City’s new WiFi network will come in handy for picking up New entries include London Wall Place, our monthly eShot when you’re on the move. 5 Broadgate, 100 Bishopsgate, the Scalpel and Bloomberg Place. The City walk route has It’s design is being refreshed, with a careful eye on mobile use, been devised to take you through the Square so it will be even easier to find out what’s going on in the Mile and from start to finish should take you about 90 minutes at an average walking pace. Square Mile. Pick up a copy at Guildhall reception, the Events, activities, exhibitions, architecture, news and special offers City Information Centre opposite St Paul’s are all part of the package so subscribe now to discover the best Cathedral or download it from the self- of what the City has to offer. guided section of this page:

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/eshot www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/walks Aldgate area improvements Change to the Aldgate traffic layout are now complete The overall aims of the Aldgate Highway Changes and with work on the major uplift to the area as a whole Public Realm Improvements Project are to: scheduled for completion by December of this year. • enhance safety for road users Highway improvements include pedestrian crossing • improve cycling routes points and easier navigation of bus services. • improve pedestrian routes and connections • introduce more greenery There is now two-way traffic on Aldgate High Street, • create new public space for events, leisure and play St Botolph Street, a section of Middlesex Street and • improve lighting in the area Minories. A section of Middlesex Street has also been closed to traffic at the junction with St Botolph Street. Sitting within Aldgate Square and complementing the two heritage listed buildings on either side, the Portsoken The highway changes are also enabling the creation of Pavilion will complete the scheme. A social enterprise two new public spaces – Aldgate Square and Eastern operator will run the facilities inside providing a new hub New network on the way public space. promoting events, leisure and play.

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Member Services John Bennett, Deputy Committee Appointments: City of London E-mail: john45bennett@ Policy & Resources Guildhall gmail.com City of London Freemen’s School Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Chairman) London EC2P 2EJ Tel: 020 8579 6890 Education Board Culture, Heritage & Libraries or email Gresham (Cityside) [email protected]

Chris Hayward CC Committee Appointments: E-mail: chris@ Planning & Transportation (Chairman) Licensing haywardinvestments.com Standards Tel: 01923 282852 Education Board The Honourable the Irish Society Finance Christ’s Hospital & King Edward VII School Gresham (Cityside)

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Continued from front page backstreet to a bright, airy and very which is a fascinating and demanding pleasant place where workers can enjoy role with the challenges facing the balance between the needs of motorists, their lunch. relocation to West Smithfield by 2021 public transport, cyclists and pedestrians and on the Thames Festival Trust which on the City roads and pavements. Finally, my membership of the City organises events in all of the London Corporation’s Brexit working party means boroughs which border the river Thames. As Chairman of Planning I have that the Ward’s voice is heard in this This fits neatly with my membership of introduced the experimental changes to very important area as negotiations with the Port Health & Environmental Services traffic at Bank Junction. During the trial Brussels commence. Committee which has responsibility for period, only buses, cyclists and pedestrians much of the tidal river from Twickenham will be able to cross Bank Junction. to Gravesend. My other responsibility is This experiment will determine whether JOHN SCOTT CC the Council of Gresham College which congestion, the incidence of accidents lays on free lectures throughout the year, and also air quality at the junction are I have served the voters of Broad both at Barnard’s Inn in Holborn and at improved. The restrictions will last through Street for nearly 20 years having been the Museum of London, many of which into 2018 and detailed analysis of the first elected in 1999. For the last seven are so popular that latecomers have to findings will take place, together with years I have been privileged to chair be turned away on occasion. 2019 marks further public consultation, to determine successively three Committees of the the 500th anniversary of the College’s whether the restrictions should be made City of London Corporation. Sadly all benefactor, Sir Thomas Gresham, whose permanent. good things come to an end and, after foresight in building the Royal Exchange three years as Chairman of the Markets provides much of the income to finance My vision as Chairman of Planning is to Committee, I have reached the end of the lecture programme, both live and on see a measured expansion of the high-rise my allotted term and now I am Deputy the internet. office development of the Eastern Cluster, Chairman for 2017/18 before I return to which includes the Gherkin, the Cheese- the backbenches. However, this does grater and the Walkie-Talkie buildings and mean that I should still be in post when the Broad Street has three members who are a significant improvement to the public Strategic Review of our wholesale markets among the most active in promoting the realm, which City workers use to commute, reports in the Spring of 2018. City as a wonderful place to work, rest shop and relax. A good example of this and play, none of which happens by improvement is the enhancement of the In the meantime I continue to serve as magic, and we value the trust and space in Austin Friars, in the Ward, which the City Corporation’s representative support that we receive from the readers has been converted from a rather shabby on the board of the Museum of London of this newsletter.