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Whilst his origins and life may have little place in fact books – we do actually have a Castle and a real Sheriff of Nottingham.</p> 129<p><a href="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/bandstand.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-9989" src="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/bandstand.jpg?w=593" alt="bandstand"></a></p> 130<p>For reasons I simply have never understood we don’t use them. We pay lip service. The Castle is a let down.</p> 131<p>I have been truly cynical – as is my way (see my views last week on Intu). I was cynical about the supposed Lottery Heritage Fund monies – and the initial scheme put forward (some toilets on the back of the gatehouse?).</p> 132<p>But two weeks ago I was invited to coffee at the Castle to meet a new City tour de force. Heather Mayfield hails from Arnold – but since 1979 has been in charge of the Science Museum in London. She has been appointed as CEO of the Nottingham Castle Trust – a body designed to oversee the redevelopment.</p> 133<p>She has big ideas for the Castle and the story of Nottingham. Some of the<a href="/2013/08/13/robin-hood-relevant-to-nottingham/"> ideas were introduced by the Sheriff’s Commission</a> five years ago.</p> 134<p>The naysayers have already started – worried about the loss of the grass and the bandstand – they will ever be so.</p> 135<p>But Nottingham deserves better. A proper attraction – somewhere we can be proud of and puts us on the tourist trail. I have lost count of the time I have spent campaigning quietly for this. I had actually given up in the belief that those in charge really do think the present Castle is OK. It’s not OK.</p> 136<p>Having spent an hour with Heather I believe that she has the drive and passion to make something happen. Make something change.</p> 137<p>She has my support and I have just about got over my bitterness about being <a href="/2011/11/01/robin-hood-just-for-the-record/">sacked off the Sheriff’s Commission!</a></p> 138</div> 139<!-- .entry-content --><footer class="entry-meta">By Tim GARRATT <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="/category/business/" rel="category tag">Business</a>, <a href="/category/green-stuff/" rel="category tag">Green stuff</a>, <a href="/category/grumpy-old-man/" rel="category tag">Grumpy Old Man!</a>, <a href="/category/nottingham/" rel="category tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/category/regeneration/" rel="category tag">Regeneration</a>
139, <a href="/category/robin-hood/" rel="category tag">Robin Hood</a>, <a href="/category/travel/" rel="category tag">Travel</a> </span> <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="tag-links"> Tagged <a href="/tag/castle/" rel="tag">Castle</a>, <a href="/tag/heather-mayfield/" rel="tag">Heather Mayfield</a>, <a href="/tag/nottingham/" rel="tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/tag/robin-hood/" rel="tag">Robin Hood</a>, <a href="/tag/science-museum/" rel="tag">Science Museum</a>, <a href="/tag/sheriff/" rel="tag">Sheriff</a>, <a href="/tag/sheriffs-commission/" rel="tag">Sheriff's Commission</a> </span> 140<div class="comments-link"><a href="/2015/02/16/nottingham-castle-a-glimmer-of-hope/#respond" title="Comment on Nottingham Castle – a glimmer of hope"><span class="no-replies">0</span></a></div> 141</footer><!-- #entry-meta --></article> 142<!-- #post-9988 --> 143<article id="post-9985" class="post-9985 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-business category-grumpy-old-man category-nottingham category-regeneration tag-empty-shops tag-grimsey tag-local-data-compnay tag-nottingham tag-numbers tag-rate tag-retail tag-vacant"><header class="entry-header"> 144<div class="post-date"><a href="/2015/02/15/shopping-again/" title="Permalink to Shopping – again" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Feb</span> <span class="day">15</span> <span class="year">2015</span> </a></div> 145<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/2015/02/15/shopping-again/" rel="bookmark">Shopping – again</a></h1> 146</header><!-- .entry-header --> 147<div class="entry-content"> 148<p>It was a bit of a grumpy blog on Friday – all about Intu. I apologise for it – but it was Friday the 13th. And it was another announcement – which have become like collectable little matchbox cars – without the sense of fun.</p> 149<p><a href="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/apple-store-wide.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9986" src="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/apple-store-wide.jpg?w=300&h=145" alt="apple-store-wide" width="300" height="145"></a></p> 150<p>But there was another story last week which you might have nearly missed. That is that (in spite of Intu’s appalling treatment of us) our shopping in Nottingham is doing rather well.</p> 151<p>The latest figures from the Local Data Company paint a very different picture from two years ago. Back then we were supposed to have one in three shops empty – which we all knew was wrong, but on a comparable basis we are now at 12.9%. In fact the retail agents in the City run their own figures and we think that the true figure in the city centre is 9.4% when you take account of shops under offer.</p> 152<p>In fact you don’t need the statistics – just walk around. The City feels different. There are more shops open – but the great thing is that we have some different shops – like the truly excellent <a href="http://www.uncut.co.uk/rough-trade-announce-plans-to-open-more-record-shops-news">Rough Trade</a> shop in the Lace Market. Like <a href="http://200degs.com/">200 degrees</a> coffee near The Market Square.</p> 153<p>I have been involved in a couple of deals in the City in the last few months and there is true competition for occupiers. We are seeing some ‘best bids’ situation – which will mean more competition and better shopping for us all.</p> 154<p>In honesty we still have some way to go. Where is our Selfridges? Where are Apple? Birmingham still steals a march on us – but things are looking up. And the City is in a better shape than it was two years ago!</p> 155</div> 156<!-- .entry-content --><footer class="entry-meta">By Tim GARRATT <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="/category/business/" rel="category tag">Business</a>, <a href="/category/grumpy-old-man/" rel="category tag">Grumpy Old Man!</a>, <a href="/category/nottingham/" rel="category tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/category/regeneration/" rel="category tag">Regeneration</a> </span> <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="tag-links"> Tagged <a href="/tag/empty-shops/" rel="tag">empty shops</a>, <a href="/tag/grimsey/" rel="tag">Grimsey</a>, <a href="/tag/local-data-compnay/" rel="tag">Local Data Compnay</a>, <a href="/tag/nottingham/" rel="tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/tag/numbers/" rel="tag">numbers</a>, <a href="/tag/rate/" rel="tag">rate</a>, <a href="/tag/retail/" rel="tag">Retail</a>, <a href="/tag/vacant/" rel="tag">vacant</a> </span> 157<div class="comments-link"><a href="/2015/02/15/shopping-again/#comments" title="Comment on Shopping – again">3</a></div> 158</footer><!-- #entry-meta --></article> 159<!-- #post-9985 --> 160<article id="post-9982" class="post-9982 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-grumpy-old-man category-nottingham category-regeneration tag-announcment tag-broadmarsh tag-intu tag-nottingham tag-nottingham-city-council tag-planning-consent tag-redevelopment tag-westfield"><header class="entry-header"> 161<div class="post-date"><a href="/2015/02/13/intu-and-qi/" title="Permalink to Intu and QI?" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Feb</span> <span class="day">13</span> <span class="year">2015</span> </a></div> 162<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/2015/02/13/intu-and-qi/" rel="bookmark">Intu and QI?</a></h1> 163</header><!-- .entry-header --> 164<div class="entry-content"> 165<p>Yesterday there was a fanfare. A loud one. Intu made an announcement about Broadmarsh Centre in Nottingham. You can read the story on the Nottingham Post website <a href="http://www.nottinghampost.com/Broadmarsh-plans-real-deal-Nottingham-says-owner/story-26013069-detail/story.html">here</a>.</p> 166<p><a href="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/qi_fry.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9983" src="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/qi_fry.jpg?w=300&h=169" alt="QI_Fry" width="300" height="169"></a></p> 167<p>The passage of interest says:</p> 168<p>“<em>Intu says it expects to start work on the redevelopment in spring 2016, with work due to be completed by 2018.</em>”</p> 169<p>Yes, “<em>expects</em>“. Not exactly a commitment then. It also expects to lodge a Planning Application “<em>in the next two months</em>“.</p> 170<p>Forgive my cynicism – but the one thing Intu are good at is announcements about stuff in the future. The Spring of 2016 is a long way off, two months isn’t long – but my question is why these announcements. We’ve been promised some new patio doors since 2003.</p> 171<p>Would it not have been better to announce that the Planning Application had been made.</p> 172<p>Done.</p> 173<p>In.</p> 174<p>Been registered at the City Council? And a timetable of a Consent within 13 weeks at the outside – with a contractor starting on the 1st of September 2015? Except of course they still have the nightmare of the ‘<a href="/2015/01/27/nottingham-development-out-of-control/">Out of Control</a>” Development Control Committee to contend with – akin to a roll of the dice.</p> 175<p>This whole announcement thing reminded me of the moment on QI when someone utters the blindingly obvious question of “when”. The klaxon sounds. It wakes us briefly from our slumber but we slip away again.</p> 176<p>It’s boring. We have heard it all before. Credibility meter is barely at zero.</p> 177<p>Just let us know when it is all done?</p> 178</div> 179<!-- .entry-content --><footer class="entry-meta">By Tim GARRATT <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="/category/grumpy-old-man/" rel="category tag">Grumpy Old Man!</a>, <a href="/category/nottingham/" rel="category tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/category/regeneration/" rel="category tag">Regeneration</a> </span> <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="tag-links"> Tagged <a href="/tag/announcment/" rel="tag">announcment</a>, <a href="/tag/broadmarsh/" rel="tag">Broadmarsh</a>, <a href="/tag/intu/" rel="tag">Intu</a>, <a href="/tag/nottingham/" rel="tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/tag/nottingham-city-council/" rel="tag">Nottingham City Council</a>, <a href="/tag/planning-consent/" rel="tag">
179Planning Consent</a>, <a href="/tag/redevelopment/" rel="tag">redevelopment</a>, <a href="/tag/westfield/" rel="tag">Westfield</a> </span> 180<div class="comments-link"><a href="/2015/02/13/intu-and-qi/#comments" title="Comment on Intu and QI?">3</a></div> 181</footer><!-- #entry-meta --></article> 182<!-- #post-9982 --> 183<article id="post-9980" class="post-9980 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-business category-mipim2013 category-nottingham tag-guest-blog tag-market-insite tag-nottingham tag-nottingham-means-business"><header class="entry-header"> 184<div class="post-date"><a href="/2015/02/06/guest-blogging-for-nottingham-means-business/" title="Permalink to Guest blogging for Nottingham Means Business" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Feb</span> <span class="day">6</span> <span class="year">2015</span> </a></div> 185<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/2015/02/06/guest-blogging-for-nottingham-means-business/" rel="bookmark">Guest blogging for Nottingham Means Business</a></h1> 186</header><!-- .entry-header --> 187<div class="entry-content"> 188<p>I wrote this guest blog for <a href="http://www.nottinghammeansbusiness.com/1624/market-insite-blog-tim-garratt-innes-england/">Nottingham Means Business</a> last week…</p> 189<p>What is coming is better than what has gone!</p> 190<p>It’s been a tough few years in the property game; the doldrums of 2008 seem to have finally left us.</p> 191<p>We presented our Market Insite to over 400 people recently – in our three cities but also in London too. We have been monitoring the regional property market for more than a decade. This year’s report showed increased levels of speculative development and refurbishment across the region – the investment sector lead the way as confidence returned to the market and multi-million pound investments in transport and leisure delivering excellent facilities across the region helping, with more to come in 2015.</p> 192<p>The East Midlands has really pushed itself to the fore during 2014, emerging as one of the strongest regional economies in the UK, and the property market is undoubtedly reflecting that.</p> 193<p>Commercial property prices are approaching pre-crash levels in some sectors and the UK is set to power ahead in 2015. The mood across the East Midlands property market is a positive one, as we look ahead to what is set to be an exciting 2015.</p> 194<p>The market in the East Midlands has not been subject to the fluctuations experienced in the South East, and we could well see the regions come further to the fore in 2015 as domestic institutions look outside of the over-heated London market to invest in higher yielding markets.</p> 195<p>Political focus on the regions could also have a hugely positive impact on the East Midlands, with devolution a real buzz word outside of the capital at the moment.</p> 196<p>In Nottingham, improvements to the retail offering are well underway with the £40m redevelopment works at intu Victoria Centre set for completion in December, with a range of new restaurants due to open in time for Christmas. Plans for a multi-million revamp of intu Broadmarsh are also due to be submitted for planning in the early part of this year too.</p> 197<p>Industrial activity in Nottingham was up 45% on 2013 levels and investment deals were at £300m – more than double the 2013 figures.</p> 198<p>At the London event we were joined by Commercial Secretary to the Treasury – Lord Deighton who heralded the East Midlands as an “excellent place to invest” – and said HS2 would help unlock even greater growth in the region. He also saw that investors are increasingly looking outside London for value and opportunity – and that the East Midlands was making the most of this.</p> 199<p>Lord Deighton, who is the Minister for UK infrastructure projects, said at our event, “The potential location of a station in the East Midlands is a key issue. An East Midlands hub is essential. It is important to choose the right location and discussions on this are now underway.”</p> 200<p>But he also said it wasn’t all about HS2. There is the £500 million extension of rail electrification from Bedford to Nottingham, as the first phase of the ‘Electrine Spine’ programme which will see the whole of London to Sheffield route electrified.</p> 201<p>“
201Add to that, major investment in the road infrastructure in the East Midlands, such as the A453 widening due to be finished later this year and which improves access between Nottingham and the M1. Through growth deals announced in July 2014, the Government will invest more than £17 million in projects across Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to fund a wide range of projects to unlock local growth.”</p> 202<p>In my view one of the biggest challenges facing the market at the moment is a lack of good quality stock, but already a number of schemes have been announced to deliver high quality space throughout the East Midlands.</p> 203<p>In Nottingham, the return of speculative refurbishment has already begun to supplement stock levels in the city, a trend that I fully expect to see continue during 2015, not only in Nottingham but across the region.</p> 204<p>Reasons to be cheerful as Ian Dury once quipped!</p> 205</div> 206<!-- .entry-content --><footer class="entry-meta">By Tim GARRATT <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="/category/business/" rel="category tag">Business</a>, <a href="/category/mipim2013/" rel="category tag">MIPIM2013</a>, <a href="/category/nottingham/" rel="category tag">Nottingham</a> </span> <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="tag-links"> Tagged <a href="/tag/guest-blog/" rel="tag">guest blog</a>, <a href="/tag/market-insite/" rel="tag">Market Insite</a>, <a href="/tag/nottingham/" rel="tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/tag/nottingham-means-business/" rel="tag">Nottingham Means Business</a> </span> 207<div class="comments-link"><a href="/2015/02/06/guest-blogging-for-nottingham-means-business/#respond" title="Comment on Guest blogging for Nottingham Means Business"><span class="no-replies">0</span></a></div> 208</footer><!-- #entry-meta --></article> 209<!-- #post-9980 --> 210<article id="post-9977" class="post-9977 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-music-2 tag-podcast tag-radio-4 tag-sarah-koenig tag-serial"><header class="entry-header"> 211<div class="post-date"><a href="/2015/01/30/digital-stories/" title="Permalink to Digital stories" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Jan</span> <span class="day">30</span> <span class="year">2015</span> </a></div> 212<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/2015/01/30/digital-stories/" rel="bookmark">Digital stories</a></h1> 213</header><!-- .entry-header --> 214<div class="entry-content"> 215<p>You might know that I have quite a lot of music at my disposal – 55,000 tracks on iTunes, unlimited music on Spotify and a revitalised and growing vinyl collection.</p> 216<p><a href="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/serial-podcast.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9978" src="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/serial-podcast.jpg?w=300&h=300" alt="serial-podcast" width="300" height="300"></a></p> 217<p>But in spite of all of this I sometimes have too much choice and hit the Radio 4 button (especially in the car).</p> 218<p>A month or so ago though I came across a podcast – <a href="http://serialpodcast.org/">Serial</a>.</p> 219<p>It’s a 12 part story and the PR say’s, “<em>It’s Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He says he’s innocent – though he can’t exactly remember what he was doing on that January afternoon. But someone can. A classmate at Woodlawn High School says she knows where Adnan was. The trouble is, she’s nowhere to be found.”</em></p> 220<p>I listened to all of the episodes over about a week! It’s addictive. It’s well written and brilliantly produced.</p> 221<p>The links to the iTunes versions and on-line downloads are in the link <a href="http://serialpodcast.org/">here</a>.</p> 222<p>I loved it and can wholeheartedly recommend it. I can’t wait for series 2 …</p> 223</div> 224<!-- .entry-content --><footer class="entry-meta">By Tim GARRATT <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="/category/music-2/" rel="category tag">Music</a> </span> <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="tag-links"> Tagged <a href="/tag/podcast/" rel="tag">podcast</a>, <a href="/tag/radio-4/" rel="tag">Radio 4</a>, <a href="/tag/sarah-koenig/" rel="tag">Sarah Koenig</a>, <a href="/tag/serial/" rel="tag">Serial</a> </span> 225<div class="comments-link"><a href="/2015/01/30/digital-stories/#comments" title="Comment on Digital stories">2</a></div> 226</footer><!-- #entry-meta --></article> 227<!-- #post-9977 --> 228<article id="post-9967" class="post-9967 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-business category-nottingham category-regeneration tag-hs2 tag-london tag-lord-deighton tag-market-insite tag-rics tag-simon-rubinsohn"><header class="entry-header"> 229<div class="post-date"><a href="/2015/01/29/london-and-lord-deighton/" title="Permalink to London – and Lord Deighton" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Jan</span> <span class="day">29</span> <span class="year">2015</span> </a></div> 230<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/2015/01/29/london-and-lord-deighton/" rel="bookmark">London – and Lord Deighton</a></h1> 231</header><!-- .entry-header --> 232<div class="entry-content"> 233<p>I had the pleasure of meeting <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/commercial-secretary-to-the-treasury">Lord Deighton</a> on Tuesday morning at our Market Insite event in London. He was a guest alongside <a href="http://www.rics.org/us/about-rics/contributors/simon-rubinsohn/">Simon Rubinsohn</a>, the Chief Economist at the RICS. We presented our 2014 facts and figures to an invited London audience.</p> 234<p><a href="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/innes-england-13.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9975" src="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/innes-england-13.jpg?w=200&h=300" alt="Innes England-13" width="200" height="300"></a></p> 235<p>It was really interesting to hear Lord Deighton respond to our take on the market – this was our 4th roadshow in the space of a week. Over 400 people came to the events!</p> 236<p>Lord Deighton’s next appointment was in Downing Street <a href="http://www.localgov.co.uk/Cities-enter-investment-beauty-parade-at-Downing-Street/38025">co-hosting an event</a>
236 to match 50 investors with three regional cities – Bristol, Birmingham and Leeds. He was good enough to suggest that if it were a success then it would be rolled out and could include Nottingham, Derby and Leicester.</p> 237<p>I did get an opportunity to ask Lord Deighton about HS2 – he chairs the HS2 Growth Task Force – about HS2.</p> 238<p>If you follow the story you probably know that the original proposal was for a station at Toton – wedged between our three East Midlands cities. This may have gone off the boil (my view not Lord Deighton’s – he can’t comment).</p> 239<p>My question was ‘<em>how do we ensure that the East Midlands actually gets a station?</em> ‘</p> 240<p>And his answer was really interesting – he suggested that the three cities needed to work together and offer a united solution. In other words if the three cities try to steal a march on each other then the Government may see this as ‘too difficult to deal with’. They want us to make it easy for them. They want us to propose a solution which is fully supported by all.</p> 241<p>This requires a very brave step. A step away from local interest small minded politics to thinking bigger.</p> 242<p>I do wonder if this can be achieved – but it is pretty clear that if we don’t make it easy then it might not happen. Time for some grown-up joined-up talking?</p> 243<p> </p> 244</div> 245<!-- .entry-content --><footer class="entry-meta">By Tim GARRATT <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="/category/business/" rel="category tag">Business</a>, <a href="/category/nottingham/" rel="category tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/category/regeneration/" rel="category tag">Regeneration</a> </span> <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="tag-links"> Tagged <a href="/tag/hs2/" rel="tag">HS2</a>, <a href="/tag/london/" rel="tag">London</a>, <a href="/tag/lord-deighton/" rel="tag">Lord Deighton</a>, <a href="/tag/market-insite/" rel="tag">Market Insite</a>, <a href="/tag/rics/" rel="tag">RICS</a>, <a href="/tag/simon-rubinsohn/" rel="tag">Simon Rubinsohn</a> </span> 246<div class="comments-link"><a href="/2015/01/29/london-and-lord-deighton/#comments" title="Comment on London – and Lord Deighton">3</a></div> 247</footer><!-- #entry-meta --></article> 248<!-- #post-9967 --> 249<article id="post-9963" class="post-9963 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-business category-green-stuff category-grumpy-old-man category-mipim2013 category-nottingham category-regeneration tag-nottingham tag-planning-consent tag-refusal tag-sports-hall-plans tag-trees tag-university-of-nottingham"><header class="entry-header"> 250<div class="post-date"><a href="/2015/01/27/nottingham-development-out-of-control/" title="Permalink to Nottingham – development out of control" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Jan</span> <span class="day">27</span> <span class="year">2015</span> </a></div> 251<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/2015/01/27/nottingham-development-out-of-control/" rel="bookmark">Nottingham – development out of control</a></h1> 252</header><!-- .entry-header --> 253<div class="entry-content"> 254<p>Last week Nottingham City Council inexplicably failed to pass plans for a new £42m Sports Hall at The University of Nottingham.</p> 255<p><a href="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/20120622-iow_2012-24.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9965" src="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/20120622-iow_2012-24.jpg?w=300&h=225" alt="Tree_Hugger" width="300" height="225"></a></p> 256<p>Some background:</p> 257<p>1. It would include a 20-court sports hall, indoor running track and 200-station fitness suite, with £3 million of the cash coming from Carphone Warehouse founder and alumni David Ross.</p> 258<p>2. It would be one of the biggest sports complexes in the East Midlands – and the UK.</p> 259<p>3. It would build on the excellent reputation the City has in education.</p> 260<p>The decision was postponed last month and <strong>refused</strong> last week. You can read the sorry story <a href="http://www.nottinghampost.com/pound-40m-sport-centre-plans-thrown/story-25905802-detail/story.html">here</a>.</p> 261<p>Some interesting facts…</p> 262<p>1. The trees were not subject to a Tree Preservation Order or are in a Conservation Area. The University could have felled them prior to the application. They could tomorrow!</p> 263<p>2. The University has won the <strong>Worlds</strong> Greenest University Title – again for 2014. Number one for the third time in four years</p> 264<p>3. There are over 5,000 trees on University Park campus, of which over 600 are in the same category of significance as the three of concern to the Committee.</p> 265<p>4. They have a national and international reputation for teaching, research and our environmental stewardship.</p> 266<p>5. The University, its staff and students generate over a billion pounds a year for the economy of this city. Every single year.</p> 267<p>6. The University has also committed to a vision to create an Arboretum of regional and national acclaim throughout the whole 300 acre University Park Campus. In 2012 it planted 40,000 trees on a 60 acre Diamond Wood in Sutton Bonington.</p> 268<p>There will be tree huggers out there and I’m good with that. But the logic of this decision beggars belief. Especially against when you consider that the City Council allowed 40 similar trees to be demolished on University Boulevard and on the Ring Road to make way for ‘improvements’. Two wrongs don’t make a right – but this really does smack of hypocrisy.</p> 269<p>From my perspective, professionally, this places us in a very difficult place. I’m off to MIPIM as part of Team Nottingham in 6 weeks to encourage developers and investors to come to Nottingham – this does not help.</p> 270<p>Any clues as to what we should tell investors and developers would be gratefully received.</p> 271</div> 272<!-- .entry-content --><footer class="entry-meta">By Tim GARRATT <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="/category/business/" rel="category tag">Business</a>, <a href="/category/green-stuff/" rel="category tag">Green stuff</a>, <a href="/category/grumpy-old-man/" rel="category tag">Grumpy Old Man!</a>, <a href="/category/mipim2013/" rel="category tag">MIPIM2013</a>, <a href="/category/nottingham/" rel="category tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/category/regeneration/" rel="category tag">Regeneration</a> </span> <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="tag-links"> Tagged <a href="/tag/nottingham/" rel="tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/tag/planning-consent/" rel="tag">
272Planning Consent</a>, <a href="/tag/refusal/" rel="tag">refusal</a>, <a href="/tag/sports-hall-plans/" rel="tag">Sports Hall plans</a>, <a href="/tag/trees/" rel="tag">Trees</a>, <a href="/tag/university-of-nottingham/" rel="tag">University of Nottingham</a> </span> 273<div class="comments-link"><a href="/2015/01/27/nottingham-development-out-of-control/#comments" title="Comment on Nottingham – development out of control">2</a></div> 274</footer><!-- #entry-meta --></article> 275<!-- #post-9963 --> 276<article id="post-9960" class="post-9960 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-business category-grumpy-old-man category-nottingham category-regeneration category-robin-hood category-travel tag-combined-authority tag-districts tag-nottingham tag-regions tag-survey tag-where-is-nottingham"><header class="entry-header"> 277<div class="post-date"><a href="/2015/01/26/nottingham-the-future/" title="Permalink to Nottingham – the future…" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Jan</span> <span class="day">26</span> <span class="year">2015</span> </a></div> 278<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/2015/01/26/nottingham-the-future/" rel="bookmark">Nottingham – the future…</a></h1> 279</header><!-- .entry-header --> 280<div class="entry-content"> 281<p>For a long time many people have been perplexed when we tell them that we are from the <a href="/2010/11/11/where-is-the-east-midlands/">East Midlands</a>. But the matter gets worse when you try to explain the make up of Nottingham.</p> 282<p><a href="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/7808_map_notts.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9961" src="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/7808_map_notts.jpg?w=300&h=259" alt="7808_map_notts" width="300" height="259"></a></p> 283<p>I live in Nottingham – in a suburb, but classed as the ‘City of Nottingham’. And yet I have friends who live in West Bridgford and Arnold – neither of them live in the City – they are in Rushcliffe and Gedling respectively. But they would consider them Nottinghamian’s. It’s a similar story when you head west – to Beeston – they are in Broxtowe. All of these ‘districts are a similar distance from the centre as I live.</p> 284<p>The email I had last week said, <em>“Council Leaders have proposed the biggest change to local government in a generation with the creation of a Combined Authority for Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire County and the seven Borough and District councils. A public consultation is currently underway to gauge local opinion – let us know you’re views before the closing date on 6th February.</em></p> 285<p><em>Leaders of Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council and the seven local Borough and District councils, have proposed the creation of a unified governance structure in the form of a Combined Authority (CA).The new Authority would make strategic decisions on major issues vital to the economic prosperity of the City and County as a whole, including regeneration, economic development, transport, infrastructure and more. Additional powers devolved from central Government could also be granted to the new organisation.</em></p> 286<p><em>There are clear plans for growth in the ‘N2’ area and key findings from the N2 Governance Review reveal that a Combined Authority has the potential to strengthen the efficiency of decision making, transparency and accountability. Out of the four possible governance options considered in the review, establishing a CA was believed to be the best way to deliver sustained economic and social benefits.</em></p> 287<p><em>Combined Authorities have already been successfully established in Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield City Regions, West Yorkshire and the North East. Although a CA would effectively be a new body, it wouldn’t replace the existing authorities and any costs would be met within existing budgets.”</em></p> 288<p>You can have your say <a href="http://gossweb.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/survey/N2CombinedAuthorityhys/">here</a>. You can read more information <a href="http://gossweb.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/survey/N2CombinedAuthorityhys/Summary%20of%20Governance%20Review%20and%20proposals%20for%20a%20Combined%20Authority%2015%20Dec%202014.doc">here</a>.</p> 289<p>Surely this is a good thing –
289 on the proviso that we get the right leadership – with unified ambitions to make this a better place.</p> 290</div> 291<!-- .entry-content --><footer class="entry-meta">By Tim GARRATT <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="/category/business/" rel="category tag">Business</a>, <a href="/category/grumpy-old-man/" rel="category tag">Grumpy Old Man!</a>, <a href="/category/nottingham/" rel="category tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/category/regeneration/" rel="category tag">Regeneration</a>, <a href="/category/robin-hood/" rel="category tag">Robin Hood</a>, <a href="/category/travel/" rel="category tag">Travel</a> </span> <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="tag-links"> Tagged <a href="/tag/combined-authority/" rel="tag">combined authority</a>, <a href="/tag/districts/" rel="tag">districts</a>, <a href="/tag/nottingham/" rel="tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/tag/regions/" rel="tag">Regions</a>, <a href="/tag/survey/" rel="tag">Survey</a>, <a href="/tag/where-is-nottingham/" rel="tag">where is Nottingham</a> </span> 292<div class="comments-link"><a href="/2015/01/26/nottingham-the-future/#comments" title="Comment on Nottingham – the future…">2</a></div> 293</footer><!-- #entry-meta --></article> 294<!-- #post-9960 --> 295<article id="post-9958" class="post-9958 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-nottingham tag-5k-a-day tag-andy-wallis tag-charity tag-marathon tag-nottingham tag-nottinghamshire-hospice tag-stapleford"><header class="entry-header"> 296<div class="post-date"><a href="/2015/01/25/a-great-cause/" title="Permalink to A great cause…" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Jan</span> <span class="day">25</span> <span class="year">2015</span> </a></div> 297<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/2015/01/25/a-great-cause/" rel="bookmark">A great cause…</a></h1> 298</header><!-- .entry-header --> 299<div class="entry-content"> 300<p>One of my squash friends asked if I’d publicise a great cause on my blog – in order to get some PR.</p> 301<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align: center; display: block;"></span></p> 302<p>I am a bit late to all of this – Andy Wallis , of Stapleford, began a marathon charity effort on the 27th January 2014 – with the intention of running 5k every day for a year. There was a story in the Post -<a href="http://www.nottinghampost.com/Andy-s-year-long-run-marathon-hospice/story-20510503-detail/story.html#ixzz3Pr9hpuPu%20"> here</a>.</p> 303<p>You can read Andy’s blog <a href="http://5kadaynh.blogspot.co.uk/">here</a> and I encourage you to donate to this great cause. <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/5kaday/">Andy has raised over £5,000</a>!</p> 304<p>He’s coming to the end of his quest this week and should be congratulated!</p> 305</div> 306<!-- .entry-content --><footer class="entry-meta">By Tim GARRATT <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="cat-links"> Posted in <a href="/category/nottingham/" rel="category tag">Nottingham</a> </span> <span class="sep"> • </span> <span class="tag-links"> Tagged <a href="/tag/5k-a-day/" rel="tag">5k a day</a>, <a href="/tag/andy-wallis/" rel="tag">Andy Wallis</a>, <a href="/tag/charity/" rel="tag">Charity</a>, <a href="/tag/marathon/" rel="tag">marathon</a>, <a href="/tag/nottingham/" rel="tag">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/tag/nottinghamshire-hospice/" rel="tag">Nottinghamshire Hospice</a>, <a href="/tag/stapleford/" rel="tag">Stapleford</a> </span> 307<div class="comments-link"><a href="/2015/01/25/a-great-cause/#respond" title="Comment on A great cause…"><span class="no-replies">0</span></a></div> 308</footer><!-- #entry-meta --></article> 309<!-- #post-9958 --> 310<article id="post-9955" class="post-9955 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-grumpy-old-man category-nottingham tag-derby tag-football tag-forest tag-hooligans tag-pride-park"><header class="entry-header"> 311<div class="post-date"><a href="/2015/01/23/unfriendly-rivalry/" title="Permalink to (un)friendly rivalry …" rel="bookmark"> <span class="month">Jan</span> <span class="day">23</span> <span class="year">2015</span> </a></div> 312<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="/2015/01/23/unfriendly-rivalry/" rel="bookmark">(un)friendly rivalry …</a></h1> 313</header><!-- .entry-header --> 314<div class="entry-content"> 315<p>At the weekend I went to watch the Forest and Derby match. It was at Pride Park and in case you have been underground for the week Forest won 2-1. Last year they were thrashed 5-0. I am not sure I was relishing the prospect of seeing the same sort of scoreline!</p> 316<p><a href="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/6876531-large.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9956" src="https://timgarratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/6876531-large.jpg?w=300&h=202" alt="6876531-large" width="300" height="202"></a></p> 317<p>
317My friends suggested I would be fine as I was with the prawn sandwich supporters! It’s quite a civilised place – and the period spent out in the cold is limited to the 90+ minutes the players hit the pitch.</p> 318<p>At first I though the atmosphere was great – although being a Forest ‘supporter’ in amongst a lot of Derby fans requires some constraint! When Forest scored I thought a big celebration was unwise, when they scored the second – even more so. That wasn’t the case for three people in front of me. They were very happy to noisily and visibly celebrate – which was clearly unwise.</p> 319<p>But what then happened was really quite worrying. The ‘banter’ turned nasty. Objects (coins) were thrown at them. And the language was more than colourful. They were threatened and I thought that they were in danger. I wasn’t the only one – two stewards suggested they leave, “for their own safety”. They did leave.</p> 320<p>This is not a story about a group of Derby fans – because I think the same would have happened at Forest.</p> 321<p>I have been to see International Rugby and sat next to opposing fans – who do not react in that way. There was no segregation.</p> 322<p>There were kids in amongst the fans I sat with and I do know that they didn’t need to hear the language or see the reaction of these ‘fans’. It’s not a great example. 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