City of London Ward News June 2015 Cordwainer

Cheapside BID approvedProposed Cheapside BID boundary

STREET NUN COURT Alban Highwalk City businesses have ALDERSGATE OAT LANE St Alban's Court Three Nun Court WHITE HORSE YARD LANGTHORN COURT

ALDERMANBURY approved the GREAT SWAN ALLEY NOBLE STREET Cycle Track LOVE MOORGATE PLACE LANE GREAT WINCHESTER STREET establishment of a GREAT SWAN ALLEY

WOOD STREET STAINING LANE Queen Isabella Way ANGEL STREET COPTHALL AVENUE THROGMORTON AVENUE BASINGHALL Business Improvement Copthall Close

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KING EDWARD STREET Christchurch Passage Guildhall MOORGATE STREET Mason's Ave Posts COLEMAN STREET

Whalebone Court Cycle Great Bell Alley District (BID) for the NEWGATE STREET Hire GRESHA Station TELEGRAPH STREET Copthall Bldgs M STREE Greyfriars Passage Guildhall T Yard British Telecom ST MARTIN'S LE GRAND AUSTIN FRIARS Cheapside Area. The Centre

CAREY LANE Guildhall Buildings Bank Cycle KING'S ARMS YARD Hire Station

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BID Ballot was held Angel Court

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NEWGATE STREET Throgmo

WARWICK LANE St Margaret's Close FOSTER LANE FOSTER Rose and Crown

Rose Street Court

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TOKENHOUSEYAR D between 13 March and Queen's Head Passage TREET Bank Founders Court GOLDSMITH STREET THROGMORTON STREET Panyer Alley 10 April 2015 and White Hart Street LOTHBURY THREADNEEDL MILK STREET

E W Compter Passage ALK Paternoster Row LAWRENCE LANE IRONMONGER LANE Cycle returned a clear majority Hire RUSSIA ROW Station

Canon Alley

KING STREET St Olave's Court Prudent Passage TRUMP STREET

OLD JEWRY in favour of the BID BARTHOLOMEW LANE Paternoster Lane CHEAPSIDE Bank of England

St Paul's Alley Honey Lane FREDERICK'S PLACE PRINCE'S STREET

Proposals with an 84% AVE MARIA LANE READNEEDLE STREET TH

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Exchange FINCH LANE yes vote by number and CHEAPSIDE PASSAGE John Milton Passage Ave

NEW CHANGE PASSAGE Bow Churchyard CHEAPSIDE GROCERS' HALL COURT Posts an 89% yes vote by St Paul's Cathedral NEW CHANGE Royal Exchange POULTRY ST MILDRED'S CT

Subway MANSION HOUSE STREET CORNHILL BREAD STREET Subway Bucklersbury rateable value. The Subway ST PAUL'S Bow Churchyard Well Court Passage

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Ball PANCRAS LANE Cour turnout for the ballot ST PAUL'S CHURCHYARD Cowper's Co SISE LANE

St Michael'sAlley Castle Court DEANS COURT Change Alley QUEEN VICTORIA STREET Pope's HeadAlley BUCKLERSBURY Bengal Court CANNON STREET was 39%. The BID Ballots CARTER LANE

GODLIMAN STREET LOMBARD STREET Post MANSION HOUSE PLACE COURT WALBROOK Carter Lane WATLING BIRCHIN LANE Post Mansion House St Stephen's Row

New Bell Yard Old Change Wardrobe Place Court

result demonstrates that ADDLE HILL Bow Lane KING WILLIAM STREET

Sermon Lane Bond Court Peter's STREET Budge Row Hill GEORGE YARD ABCHURCH LANE there is a strong appetite KNIGHTRIDER ST Posts CT KNIGHT RIDER QUEEN VICTORIA Cycle Hire Station Subway Posts KNIGHTRIDER STREET

Wardrobe Terr Nicholas Passage LOMBARD STREET from the business ROYAL Posts

DISTAFF LANE BREAD STREET CANNON STREET

TOWER SHERBORNE LANE FRIDAY STREET WALBROOK

NICHOLAS LANE Post Old Fish Cleary community to work in Street Hill Court GREAT TRINITY LANE

Plough Court Cycle Hire Station GREAT ST THOMAS ST SWITHIN'S LANE OXFORD COURT Underground Railway APOSTLE QUEEN VICTORIA STREET KING WILLIAM STREET CLEMENT'S LANE

COURT Abchurch partnership with the City Subway CLOAK LANE Posts

SALTERS' HALL Yard ABCHURCH LANE LOMBARD COURT Posts GP

Lombard Court CLOAK LANE BENNET'S HILL Huggin Court LITTLE TRINITY LANE Newcastle Court St Clement's Ct STREET GARLICK HILL Cycle Hire Station Corporation in delivering COLLEGE HILL

Fye Foot Lane

Huggin Hill QUEEN CANNON STREET LAMBETH HILL NICHOLAS LANE Underground Railway BOOTH LANE Miniver Place CASTLE BAYNARD STREET the BID Proposals Tunnel

The BID arrangements took effect on free support in developing CSR businesses and sending regular 11 May and will be maintained for five programmes and providing a newsletters to inform members of years, after which another Ballot would dedicated employment service to what is happening locally. have to be held and approved in order place local people in to jobs. e. Business awareness and networking for the BID to continue for a further five b. Environment, signage and way opportunities. years. finding. Projects include hosting corporate The area covered by the BID extends Projects include looking at networking events and retail from St Paul’s cathedral to the Bank of enhancing the street signage symposiums; monitoring activity in England and includes the whole of the and information given to the area to include footfall and sales Ward of Cordwainer. businesses to improve way finding; data; providing a focus for matters developing projects to provide relating to enterprise in the area; The BID entails raising a modest levy on green infrastructure in the area; and providing a focus for discussions businesses through the rating system and seeking to contribute to the with the City Corporation and City to be used for specified projects in integration of new strategies and Police through running bespoke the area. The business rate multiplier is developments such as the Bank events to inform on issues such as set at 0.25% together with a threshold Area Strategy and Bloomberg cyber-crime and economic of excluding properties falling below development. crime. a rateable value of £180,000 and a capped contribution so that no c. Tourism and culture. Over a five-year period of the BID, business pays more than £3,750. The Projects include working with the the levy will generate an income of rates have been set to ensure that City Corporation Cultural and £1.85 million with additional voluntary the contributions are seen as being Visitor Development Team and City contributions (from property owners) affordable. Information Centre to promote the generating an estimated additional area and providing an on-street income of £500,000. ambassadorial programme to welcome and orientate tourists. The BID will be managed by a board Five project areas have been identified: made up from the local business d. Marketing and promotion community, and will be supported by a. Employment enterprise and training. Projects include continuing to an executive team made up of a Chief Projects include the BID will working deliver a successful Privilege Card Executive, an Operations Manager and in partnership with the ‘Heart of scheme; developing a website and an Administrator who will be contracted the City’ programme to provide a social media platform for member by the City. Keep on the register and spread the word

If you’re receiving this ward newsletter it means you It also acts as a reminder of who you are already on the Ward Lists – our register of voters can contact if you do have an issue HAVE for City Ward elections. But to keep receiving it we with something within the Square YOUR need you to re-register each year. All residential Mile – from security to planning, road SAY! properties and businesses that are eligible to safety to the night time economy and appoint voters will be sent registration forms in air quality to broadband provision. September and an early response from you means we won’t have to keep chasing you. If you are a voter appointed by a business, we would also ask you to spread the word about the Being on the Ward Lists is not just about having a unique opportunity that City workers have to register, vote in ward and City-wide elections, it also puts because there are some firms that don’t use their you in touch with Members who sit on the City full entitlement or register at all. Each business has a Corporation’s various committees and its main designated person responsible for registration and decision making body. They represent you and the Electoral Services team at the City Corporation your interests in the whole range of work the City is happy to help workers find out who their business’s Corporation carries out. contact is.

This newsletter is one way your ward representatives within the City Corporation keep you up to date on More information is available from how they are working on your behalf. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/voting Going underground At the time of writing Crossrail Farringdon station will include was due to notch up a significant two ticket halls. The eastern milestone with tunnelling hall will be located within scheduled to conclude in its final the City at Lindsey Street phase from Liverpool Street to and the western hall (shared Farringdon. with Thameslink, and which opened in December 2011) is In all 42km of Crossrail train tunnels located at Cowcross Street in will have been created by two the Borough of Islington. 1,000 tonne tunnel machines (named Victoria and Elizabeth). The eastern ticket hall will also provide a second entrance In the coming months, the next to London Underground’s phase of station building and Barbican station. fitout will continue across the central stations. The Crossrail station at Liverpool Street will have west side of Moorfields will provide Crossrail will transform rail entrances at both Liverpool Street the main access point from the transport in London, increasing and Moorgate. The plans for Moorgate end of the station. capacity by 10%, supporting the Liverpool Street end of the regeneration and cutting station include the modification The Crossrail project will bring an journey times across the City. of the main London Underground extra 1.5m people to within 45 ticket hall and the construction minutes of central London and Its route will run over 100km from of a new Broadgate ticket will link London’s key employment, Reading and Heathrow in the hall at basement level with an leisure and business districts – west, through new tunnels under entrance in front of the UBS Heathrow, West End, the City, central London to Shenfield and building in Liverpool Street (west). Docklands – enabling further Abbey Wood in the east. An underground pedestrian link economic development. connects the Crossrail station There will be 40 Crossrail with the existing Network Rail and The first Crossrail services through stations including 10 new Underground stations, providing central London are due to start in stations at Paddington, Bond covered interchange between all late 2018 and it is estimated that Street, Tottenham Court Road, three stations. 200m passengers will use Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Crossrail every year. Whitechapel, Canary Wharf, A single new entrance combined Custom House, Woolwich and with the existing London Abbey Wood. Underground entrance on the www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/crossrail Keep on the register and spread the word A milestone year for the City Every Lord Mayor’s Show is special but this year it is marking its 800th anniversary and should prove to be particularly memorable.

As ever the Show is held on the second Saturday in November and will be made up of a three mile long procession of music and movement, community and commerce, pomp and pageantry, all of which represents the City in all its diversity.

The Square Mile’s long history is represented by the livery companies, military units and bands while its to welcome the new Lord Mayor via Victoria Embankment. focus on the future is shown and mark the beginning of his through the community year in style. The Show is rounded off at 5pm groups, businesses and with a magnificent firework display schools taking part. Starting and finishing at Mansion on the Thames sponsored by the House, the procession travels City Corporation. In all more than 6,500 down Cheapside, round and past people, 200 vehicles and St Paul’s Cathedral to the Royal For more information visit 70 floats will be on display Courts of Justice before returning www.lordmayorshow.org

Segregated Cycle Superhighways in the City of London Transport for London has now begun work on the These routes will be busier than usual during Cycle Superhighways that will provide safer, faster construction and some road users and bus and more direct cycle journeys into central London. passengers will experience delays. Specific work locations and dates may change, so you are Businesses and customers in the areas around advised to plan ahead and allow more time to the planned Cycle Superhighways routes are complete your journeys. being urged to consider how their deliveries and collections may be affected during construction. For further information on the projects mentioned The schedule of work is: and to plan your journey, please visit www.tfl.gov.uk/roadtraveladvice. You can also • East-West Cycle Superhighway – Lancaster Gate subscribe to receive further information on the to Tower Hill (construction ongoing until summer schemes at: tfl.gov.uk/emailupdates. 2016)

• North-South Cycle Superhighway – Elephant & Castle to Stonecutter Street, near Holborn Viaduct (construction ongoing until spring 2016 with works in the City starting in August 2015)

• Cycle Superhighway Route 2 Upgrade – Aldgate to Bow roundabout (construction ongoing until spring 2016)

• Cycle Superhighway Route 5 – Oval to Pimlico (construction ongoing until autumn 2015) Cordwainer www.www.cordwainer.co.uk

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Mark Boleat Committee Appointments: Chairman of Policy and Resources E-mail: mark.boleat@ Committee, Member of Police, Finance and Investment Committees. Represents the City on the Boards of TheCityUK, cityoflondon.gov.uk London Councils, Heart of the City, London and Partners and Tel: 07803 377343 Central London Forward.

George Gillon Committee Appointments: Member of Policy and Cordwainer E-mail: george.gillon@ Resources, Port Health and Environmental Services, cityoflondon.gov.uk Planning and Transportation and Investment Committees, Co-Chair of Cross-River Partnership Board. Tel: 07774 409367

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A Car For Christmas DarrenWard Clayton Club is the new Chairman of the Ward of Cordwainer Club, Danny had recently passed his succeeding Tim Collerton. Darren was elected at the Annual General driving test and decided to ask Meeting of the Club, held at Tallow Chandlers Hall on 28 April. Darren his clergyman father if there was is a partner in the employment solicitors Doyle Clayton, based in the any chance of him getting a car Ward. The new Deputy Chairman is Keith Loney. At the lunch following for Christmas, which was yet some the AGM Richard Marks QC, the Common Serjeant of London, the months away. ‘Okay.’ said his father second most senior judge at the Old Bailey, was the guest speaker ‘I tell you what I’ll do. If you can get your ‘A’ level grades up to ‘A’s and ‘B’s, study your bible and get Further details about the Club are available from the Honorary your hair cut, I’ll consider the matter Secretary, Tom Moore, at [email protected]. very seriously.’ Ward members continue to hold top City positions A couple of months later Danny Cordwainer’s members on the Court of Common Council continue to play a major role in went back to his father who said ‘I’m the Court of Common Council. For a time in 2013 Cordwainer members Sir Roger Gifford, really impressed by your commitment George Gillon and Mark Boleat held the three senior positions in the Court – Lord Mayor, to your studies. Your grades are Chief Commoner and Chairman of Policy. This has never happened before and is unlikely to excellent and the work you have happen again. put into your bible studies is very encouraging. However, I have to Mark Boleat has been re-elected for a fourth year as Chairman of the Policy and Resources say I’m very disappointed that you Committee, Sir Michael Snyder and George Gillon also serving on that Committee. All haven’t had your hair cut yet. three also serve on the Resource Allocation Sub-Committee, which has a major role in the governance of the City. Sir Michael Snyder continues as Chairman of the Governors of the Danny was a smart young man who City of London Girls School and Chairman of the Projects Sub-Committee. George Gillon was never lost for an answer. ‘Look continues to chair the Cross River Partnership. dad. In the course of my bible studies I’ve noticed in the illustrations that Moses, John the Baptist, Samson and Jazz in the lane even Jesus had long hair.’ ‘Yes. I’m The Bow Bells Association has arranged another “Jazz in the Lane” aware of that...’ replied his father ‘... day on July 9th. The Association, which organises a series of but did you also notice they walked event in Bow Lane and Watling Street, held the first such event last wherever they went?’ year. Retailers support the event with special promotions.