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Download Citivision Magazine December 2013 oventry News...features...plus more about your city...your neighbourhood...your services cC t v s oissue 45 | dn ecember | 2013 INSIDE l Making more of your city 4-page special supplement l Student village plan offers quality homes for 500 l Venues fired up by home grown energy Including: news, comments and updates from organisations across the city working together to improve life in Coventry From the top contents welcome to the december 2013 issue of citivision l A personal message from A personal message from Charley Gibbons, chair of the Coventry Partnership... * Charley Gibbons is Cllr Ann Lucas, chief executive of the With further improvements creation and growth. Citizens’ Advice Leader, Coventry on the horizon for the city, it’s At the same time, Bureau in Coventry City Council. good to know that supporting people on the and has agreed to be the chair of the organisations are continuing lowest income is absolutely Coventry Partnership to work well together. vital, and on page 9 of this for the coming year. New year brings Coventry Partnership was issue we’ve highlighted several new opportunities set up to improve the quality projects that show people The new year brings new of life for local people, and some of the steps they can beginnings – and this issue of providing a good base for the take to combat the effects of Citivision brings lots of stories local economy is vital for job welfare reform changes. about new beginnings for Coventry. We’ll begin to see our new news community focus city centre take shape next 4 Three empty and obsolete Page 10 year as work begins to create office blocks in the city centre A novel car sharing the bridge deck that will are set to be converted into a scheme has been kickstart the creation of the student village with up to 500 launched at long-awaited business district rooms. Westwood Business by the railway station. 5 A £50-million fund to Park with the support Meanwhile some of our support business growth is of the City Council most recognisable landmarks being launched by the and Westwood in the heart of the city will Council. Business Park take on new life as they 7 A new district energy heatline Residents’ Association. become the homes for our has been officially opened and students who bring so much is being described as the first to Coventry. scheme of its kind in the UK. community focus adoption focus At the same time, we’ll be getting on with the job of welfare focus 10 An award-winning volunteer 18 With figures showing an improving some of the city scheme and one of the most increase in people becoming centre’s squares and open 9 People could be eligible for successful in Coventry is on adopters, the pressure spaces. If we want business to £135 off this winter’s fuel bill the lookout for new recruits. remains to get even more invest in our city, we need to by registering for the Warm to come forward. make it look as good as Homes Discount scheme. possible, and I know that this regeneration focus health focus time next year we’ll have 11 Your four-page guide on how 17 Thousands of city residents plenty more to be proud of new ring road could be putting their lives at when we welcome visitors engineering and risk this winter by not taking here. landscape works are set to advantage of their free flu Of course all this work will give visitors and motorists a vaccination. mean some disruption for us more attractive and free- all, so please be patient with flowing approach to the city. us from time to time over what’s on the coming year as we get on with the job of regenerating 20 A round-up of some of the Coventry – I promise it will attractions on offer in and be worth it in the end! around Coventry this I’m looking forward to winter. 2014, and I hope you are, too. Merry Christmas to you all, councillors and here’s to a peaceful and prosperous new year. 22 Need to contact your councillor? Check out our * You can write to Ann at The Council comprehensive directory. House, Earl Street, Coventry CV1 5RR, or e-mail her at [email protected] contact us If you need this information in another Call the Citivision newsdesk on print and distribute to every If you would like to advertise in the format or language please contact us: 024 7683 1075 or write to Newsdesk, home in Coventry. You can also next issue of Citivision , contact Tel: 024 7683 1081 Room 27, The Council House, pick up a copy at libraries and Darren O’Shaughnessy on Fax: 024 7683 1132 Earl Street, Coventry, CV1 5RR, council buildings. Citivision is 024 7683 1075. Coventry City e-mail: communications@ or e-mail [email protected] produced on paper from Council is grateful for the support coventry.gov.uk sustainable woodland and is from advertisers in this issue of Cover story: Anna Bright (main picture), from Written and produced by the chlorine free. The milling process Citivision , but accepts no Sustainability West Midlands, checks out the waste to energy Communications Team, Coventry also has Environmental responsibility for the accuracy of furnace, and (inset, from left) the Heatline project is opened officially by Mike Smith, Cofely District Energy, Simon City Council. Each edition of Management Systems in place. adverts. The next issue of Citivision will Woodward, CEO Cofely District Energy, Cllr Rachel Lancaster Citivision costs 7p per copy to write, be delivered in March 2014. and Cllr Abdul Khan. Pictures: hollisphotography.com Once read, please recycle. Full story – Page 7 13/11/2738 december 2013 | citivision | 03 news High-quality living on offer as empty office Three empty and obsolete office blocks gymnasium, lounge, and meeting and in Coventry city centre are set to be conference space for student use. converted into a student village with up The proposals could involve the to 500 rooms. Council providing commercial loans The buildings – Burges House in totalling £12.1 million in order to secure Ironmonger Row, a former Axa building the redevelopment of the three office in Corporation Street and the former blocks. Axa Tower in Well St – will all be Cllr Lynnette Kelly, Cabinet Member converted by Coventry-based Study Inn for Business, Enterprise and Group into high-quality serviced Employment said: “Our two universities student accommodation with 24hr are vital to the economy and management and a full range of international reputation of our city. facilities including reception, They have a key role to play in There’s nothing taxing about direct debit People are being Cabinet Member for encouraged to join Strategic Finance and more than 65,000 local Resources, said that customers and switch increasing online business is to paying their council inevitable and it was tax by direct debit. important that more and The call is being made as more people made the organisations increasingly switch. do their business online to He said: “Most of our improve turnaround times customers prefer to pay and to manage more using direct debit because it efficient ways of working. is the cheapest and most efficient method of Most customers ‘ collection - benefiting both prefer to pay using the customer and the direct debit because it Council. We know that isn’t is the cheapest and so simple for everyone most efficient method because of personal of collection...’ circumstances but for those About six out of 10 of us who can it makes real people make their monthly sense.” council tax payments by Switching to direct debit direct debit and because it’s is straight forward. For a much more efficient people who have an process for paying and account with a bank or processing the payments building society, it is an the Council’s revenues and automated way of paying benefits team is reminding the bill. For details people how easy it is to complete the online form switch. via www.coventry.gov.uk Cllr Damian Gannon, /counciltax Coventry-based charity Normandy Day UK is appealing for former servicemen Steady progress for college and women to be part of a peace education film project. Thanks to Armed Ofsted has judged City College Coventry to be making Forces Community Covenant grant funding, a film maker will be appointed to ‘reasonable progress’. The inspectors explored a work with Coventry secondary schools to interview service men and women. number of themes, including self-assessment, learner Prominent international peace makers will also be interviewed and the film will success rates, improving teaching and learning, be held by the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. The film will be completed by workplace learning, science, mathematics, engineering June 6, 2014, the 70th anniversary of D-Day. It will then be promoted to all UK and business, governance and performance management. secondary schools. D-Day veteran Dennis Davison, aged 90, who founded the Since the summer, interim principal John Hogg and chair charity, said: “This project is a dream come true. To bring the message of peace Maggie Galliers have introduced a new strategic plan to young people means the world to me. But it can only happen if people come that focuses on Coventry and the surrounding area and forward to tell their stories.” For details contact Andy at on meeting immediate and future skills gaps. [email protected] or by call 07939 105706. 04 | citivision | december 2013 news High-quality living on offer as empty office blocks replaced by 500-room student village Coventry’s regeneration and they are a same time it will also bring vacant significant contributor to our economy.
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