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Leicester in running for two national transport awards

By danjmartin  |  Posted: August 04, 2016

   

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Leicester is in the running for two prestigious national transport awards.

The city's multi-million pound Connecting Leicester project, which aims to create better cycling and pedestrian links between the city centre and major historical and tourist, has been shortlisted for an Excellence in Cycling and Walking award.

Connecting Leicester is up against seven other schemes including Transport for London's Cycle Superhighway Programme.Award.

Organisers have also put Leicester City Council forward to be shortlisted for Transport Local Authority of the Year.

Other contenders are Aberdeenshire Council, Brighton & Hove City Council, Gateshead Council and Southwark Council.

Read more: 20,000 of Leicester's poorest households face council tax bill hike

Winners will be announced in October, in the awards scheme run by Transport Times.Schemes included in the Connecting Leicester works were Jubilee Square and the nearby Old Town streets; the resurfacing and improvements at nearby Applegate, the introduction of two-way cycle lanes at Newarke Street and Southgates, and the new cycle lanes at Welford Road.

Connecting Leicester is a £19 million package of public realm investment to create better links between the city centre and other key parts of the city.

City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby's often controversial scheme began 2012 and is still continuing.

He said: "Connecting Leicester has made some dramatic improvements to the city, and has really helped encourage safer walking and cycling, which has obvious benefits for the city's air quality and in cutting traffic congestion.

"We have also set about repairing the 'disconnection' caused by some of the less sympathetic choices of urban design over the decades, to ensure the city is well-connected and appealing for modern needs.

"A lot of detailed design work has gone into these schemes, and I'm delighted to see them being shortlisted for national recognition."

Read more: The price of a party: How Leicester City's amazing Premier League victory parade was paid for

Critics have accused the mayor of prioritising spending on the city centre of projects to improve Leicester's outer estates and residential areas.

Sir Peter has repeatedly stressed that council capital investment in the 'shop window' city centre has been dwarfed by projects such as school renovations and rebuilding in the neighbourhoods.

He has also faced criticism from motorists and some businesses for pedestrianisation schemes and giving road space over to cyclists but he has insisted he is trying to find a balance between the car and the bike with schemes that will improve the city's environment.


Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/leicester-in-running-for-two-national-transport-awards/story-29585470-detail/story.html#RlrXbHZBYMjulhTw.99

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£2.2m plan to tackle Leicester's problem parking - Here are the council's main proposals

By danjmartin  |  Posted: August 10, 2016

   

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A multi-million pound plan shake-up of Leicester's public car parking has been outlined by council bosses.

Officials have set out proposals they say will help deal with anti-social and problem parking through extra enforcement as well as the revamping of car parks and provision of new spaces and measures to tackle congestion.

The city has 9,800 parking spaces, managed by the council and private firms.

Below is a summary of the main elements of the a £2.2 million package of council ideas proposed in the next three years.

*£450,000 to improve existing council car parks including the city centre's Haymarket and Dover Street car parks.

*£75,000 to be spent on a consultation on whether residents should be asked to pay to park on the streets of St Matthew's and Stoneygate.

These areas would join the West End which has a contentious residents' parking scheme.

*£450,000 to be spent on creating more sparking spaces on the streets of residential estates - though no number has been specified.

*£300,000 to tackle pavement parking following Rushey Mead and Aylestone pilot schemes with a view to a city wide enforcement.

* Plans to work with Leicester City, Tigers and the Leicestershire Cricket Club to tackle the pressures of match day parking.

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*£450,000 to tackle dangerous parking outside city schools including using a camera enforcement van to fine offenders.

*Recruitment of additional traffic wardens

*Use of a camera enforcement van to catch drivers in bus lanes.

* A city wide tow away zone when badly parked cars could be impounded.

*A crackdown on illegal parking near Leicester Royal Infirmary

Last year, the city council collected over £1.9milllion from on-street parking, £1.7milllion from its car park charges, and almost £1.4milllion from parking fines.

Officials say this cash was reinvested in car parking services and improvements, supported bus services, concessionary travel and city transport projects.

People are being invited to comment on the plans in a consultation which runs until September 30.

To have a say on the draft Parking Improvement Action Plan (2016-19) visitwww.leicester.gov.uk/haveyoursay


Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/2-2m-plan-to-tackle-leicester-s-problem-parking-here-are-the-council-s-main-proposals/story-29605527-detail/story.html#96RZFvZkCM5gZF8B.99

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£32m high rise flats complex planned for Leicester's disused International Hotel

By danjmartin  |  Posted: July 31, 2016

   

 

Leicester's eyesore International Hotel could be flattened to make way for a multi-million pound 18-storey flats complex.

Plans have been drawn up to demolish the 11-storey disused building on the corner of Rutland Street and Humberstone Gate and replace it with a 637 apartments in a high-rise structure.

The firm behind the £32 million project - Land Invest Ltd - says it will help regenerate an unloved part of the city on the edge of Leicester's Cultural Quarter.

Agent for the project Caroline Simpson-Reynolds said: "We are hopeful this will revolutionise that side of town.

"This is a serious investment into the area.

"Everyone is desperate for that site to be brought back into use and create some vibrancy in that area."

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The proposed development from Humberstone Gate

Several schemes have been drawn up for the building over the years which involved refurbishing it but none have got off the ground.

Read more: 30 test positive for tuberculosis after screening at Leicester homelessness hostel

Ms Simpson-Reynolds said it had now been decided that clearing the site and starting again was the best approach.

She said: "Let's be honest, it is an horrendous building. There have been attempts to refurbish it but they haven't worked.

"We intend to demolish to ground level and rebuild.

"There will be what we call the depository. of 10 storeys, as well as a tower of 18 storeys.

"It will be big but nowhere near as imposing as the nearby 25 storey BT Exchange tower which is enormous.

"What we have in mind is quite contemporary but where it fronts onto Rutland Street and Wimbledon Street we will use brick in keeping with the other buildings there."

The new development - to be called Caroline House - will be based around a large open public space and will have a roof garden.

It will have a mixture of studio flats aimed a first time buyers and larger homes.

On the ground floor it will have commercial units and negotiations are taking place with a coffee shop and deli operator who would occupy them.

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really be glad to see the arse end of this building. It has blighted that area for years..get it knocked down and fast!  PS - impressive how many refurbishment projects are actually going on (or at least seriously planned) at the moment...

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8 minutes ago, midland_red said:

really be glad to see the arse end of this building. It has blighted that area for years..get it knocked down and fast!  PS - impressive how many refurbishment projects are actually going on (or at least seriously planned) at the moment...

 

I suppose there's lots of refurbishment projects because there's so many places that need refurbishing.

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8 hours ago, baker11 said:

Leicester needs a decent sports bar type place.

Leicester needs businesses, it needs big firms, medium firms, small forms to setup shop.  I work with many consortium s, unfortunately Nottingham is the base for east mids, in fact the largest employer in east mids, houses all of there parent company staff in notts

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£2.2m plan to tackle Leicester's problem parking - Here are the council's main proposals

By danjmartin  |  Posted: August 10, 2016

   

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More traffic wardens could be recruited

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A multi-million pound plan shake-up of Leicester's public car parking has been outlined by council bosses.

Officials have set out proposals they say will help deal with anti-social and problem parking through extra enforcement as well as the revamping of car parks and provision of new spaces and measures to tackle congestion.

The city has 9,800 parking spaces, managed by the council and private firms.

Below is a summary of the main elements of the a £2.2 million package of council ideas proposed in the next three years.

*£450,000 to improve existing council car parks including the city centre's Haymarket and Dover Street car parks.

*£75,000 to be spent on a consultation on whether residents should be asked to pay to park on the streets of St Matthew's and Stoneygate.

These areas would join the West End which has a contentious residents' parking scheme.

*£450,000 to be spent on creating more sparking spaces on the streets of residential estates - though no number has been specified.

*£300,000 to tackle pavement parking following Rushey Mead and Aylestone pilot schemes with a view to a city wide enforcement.

* Plans to work with Leicester City, Tigers and the Leicestershire Cricket Club to tackle the pressures of match day parking.

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*£450,000 to tackle dangerous parking outside city schools including using a camera enforcement van to fine offenders.

*Recruitment of additional traffic wardens

*Use of a camera enforcement van to catch drivers in bus lanes.

* A city wide tow away zone when badly parked cars could be impounded.

*A crackdown on illegal parking near Leicester Royal Infirmary

Last year, the city council collected over £1.9milllion from on-street parking, £1.7milllion from its car park charges, and almost £1.4milllion from parking fines.

Officials say this cash was reinvested in car parking services and improvements, supported bus services, concessionary travel and city transport projects.

People are being invited to comment on the plans in a consultation which runs until September 30.

To have a say on the draft Parking Improvement Action Plan (2016-19) visitwww.leicester.gov.uk/haveyoursay


Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/2-2m-plan-to-tackle-leicester-s-problem-parking-here-are-the-council-s-main-proposals/story-29605527-detail/story.html#96RZFvZkCM5gZF8B.99

I'd imagine Soulsby's quite proud of Leicester having among the slowest roads of any city during rush hour.

Because everything the council does seems designed to make more trouble for his enemy, the motorist,  with the above only promising more of the same!

Clearly the emphasis is on developing a university/tourist town and I hope it works. Perhaps we should have a bronze statue in honour of the fined motorists doing so much to help pay for the transition! :D.  

  

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/8203-leicester-s-roads-among-the-slowest-outside-london-during-morning-rush-hour/story-29679816-detail/story.html

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On 12/08/2016 at 16:09, baker11 said:

Leicester needs a decent sports bar type place.

With all the success of City, Tigers and Riders there should be a massive sports bar in the City! When I go back to Boston USA, they have bars covered in pics of baseball players, basketball players and American footballers! Very popular! It should be the same here! 

 

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14 minutes ago, WarehamFox said:

With all the success of City, Tigers and Riders there should be a massive sports bar in the City! When I go back to Boston USA, they have bars covered in pics of baseball players, basketball players and American footballers! Very popular! It should be the same here! 

 

We're not like America where we have all the games live at 3 O'Clock, it'd be 1 game at a time and if you didn't support either team would you bother?

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40 minutes ago, Webbo said:

We're not like America where we have all the games live at 3 O'Clock, it'd be 1 game at a time and if you didn't support either team would you bother?

You might not but others would, if there was a decent sports bar in town I'd go to watch away games/England games 

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