Brighton and Hove council bid to win £24m (From The Argus)
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Brighton and Hove council bid to win £24m
10:44am Friday 27th July 2012 in News By John Keenan
Brighton and Hove is in the running to scoop a £24 million fund to boost the city’s economy.
Thirty councils from across the UK, including Brighton and Hove City Council , will carry out government-funded studies to try to win the ‘future city’ prize.
Brighton and Hove City Council has been awarded £50,000 from the Technology Strategy Board, the government’s innovation agency, to undertake a feasibility study to show how the city can join up its transport, communications and other infrastructure.
The study will give practical examples of how the city’s service can be improved and will highlight new approaches to delivering a good local economy and excellent quality of life, while reducing the environmental footprint.
The council will submit a proposal for a large-scale ‘future cities demonstrator’, showing how challenges in the city will be addressed.
If successful, the city will be in line for £24 million of funding to implement its proposals.
The feasibility study must be submitted by November 14.
The winning proposal will be announced in January.
One Planet status
Council leader Jason Kitcat said the study would help Brighton and Hove to become the first city in the world to gain One Planet status.
The One Planet Living idea was developed by sustainable development charity, BioRegional, and WWF to encourage businesses, organisations and individuals to reduce their ecological footprint and live and work within a fair share of the planet's resources.
Councillor Kitcat said: “Brighton and Hove is a compact city of global appeal drawing up to eight million annual visits, and inspiring the highest number of business start ups outside London.
“With two universities and a free-thinking culture our city is the perfect location to demonstrate how a city of the future could be.
“We will be working closely with partners to develop the next stage of our bid to be a ‘sustainable super city’, but this is only achievable through integrating smart city systems and encouraging innovation in the public and private sector.”
Iain Gray, chief executive of the Technology Strategy Board, said: “The results will be made public and we look forward to seeing some exciting future city demonstrator proposals.”
Anyone interested in helping the city with its bid can contact the council’s economic development department on 01273 291095.
They can also get involved with the discussion through the #bhfuturecity hashtag on Twitter.
Brighton and Hove Future City tweets
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Comments(13)
Valerie Paynter
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11:01am Fri 27 Jul 12
The Green Party's display of jackboot intolerance on this has been breathtaking.
But of course it won't be them doing the work for this competition bid, it will be the council's officers and anyone else who has the expertise to be involved or used as a paid consultant to work up the proposals.
The Green Party itself is busy elsewhere, ensuring it is as PC as it can fashionably be on the social engineering front.
Once upon a time, voting gave me hope!
Valerie Paynter
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11:04am Fri 27 Jul 12
GIVE UP
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11:07am Fri 27 Jul 12
Valerie Paynter
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11:23am Fri 27 Jul 12
GIVE UP wrote:We need to be putting real pressure on visitors to respect their host. This should be an urgent Green Party priority.
Brighton has now become the UKs biggest LITTER BIN according to all the national newspapers and it can only get worse.....showing the Olympics on the beach bad bad idea
We were told recently that cleaning up after these litter lout visitors (and how many are from the local student population I wonder?) costs this city £5m a year.
Every single person coming here to the universities, getting off a train or walking onto the Royal Pavilion lawns or our seafront should be given a leaflet about their potential impact on this city and asking them to be considerate.
That said: I'd also put benches all over the place with recycling and refuse bins very close by to encourage people to eat and drink THERE and then bin their bits.
A few sunny weekends of police presence in numbers grabbing and spot-fining those littering would soon get the message out there.
Students caught littering should be expelled from their universities. Not kidding! They don't WANT to show respect for the environment so it must be demanded of them.
george smith
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11:25am Fri 27 Jul 12
HJarrs
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11:26am Fri 27 Jul 12
Free thinking Jason? You haven't read the Argus comments then!
Great that we are going for this, but the total funding is pityfull.
Valerie Paynter
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11:26am Fri 27 Jul 12
GIVE UP wrote:And as Environmental issues are a core Green issue - far more so in the minds of voters than social engineering issues - I hope the Green Party are formulating a policy for how they intend to deal with the total contempt being shown for this city by the people doing the littering, be they from the student or settled population, or those arriving in trains and coaches.
Brighton has now become the UKs biggest LITTER BIN according to all the national newspapers and it can only get worse.....showing the Olympics on the beach bad bad idea
fredflintstone1
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12:36pm Fri 27 Jul 12
As well as the issues that others have raised in this thread already, including the mindless destruction in Wild Park and widespread littering, you could add persistent traveller incursions on to community land, road management that simply clogs all the arteries into the city, exhorbitant housing costs etc.. The Council can't sort out the problems that are currently blighting people's lives in this city today, let alone having any practical ideas for the future.
Let's not forget that the Council is also already wasting probably £100,000 plus on its vainglorious biosphere bid. Who cares?
Meanwhile, the city's elderly are being priced out of taking part in sport because of the hike in charges for bowls etc. etc. etc.
mickeymonkeyman
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1:47pm Fri 27 Jul 12
Fight Back
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1:53pm Fri 27 Jul 12
Valerie Paynter wrote:You're complaining about litter and then suggest giving every visitor a leaflet ???? Nice joined up thinking there !
GIVE UP wrote:We need to be putting real pressure on visitors to respect their host. This should be an urgent Green Party priority.
Brighton has now become the UKs biggest LITTER BIN according to all the national newspapers and it can only get worse.....showing the Olympics on the beach bad bad idea
We were told recently that cleaning up after these litter lout visitors (and how many are from the local student population I wonder?) costs this city £5m a year.
Every single person coming here to the universities, getting off a train or walking onto the Royal Pavilion lawns or our seafront should be given a leaflet about their potential impact on this city and asking them to be considerate.
That said: I'd also put benches all over the place with recycling and refuse bins very close by to encourage people to eat and drink THERE and then bin their bits.
A few sunny weekends of police presence in numbers grabbing and spot-fining those littering would soon get the message out there.
Students caught littering should be expelled from their universities. Not kidding! They don't WANT to show respect for the environment so it must be demanded of them.
righton
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2:03pm Fri 27 Jul 12
Crystal Ball wrote:so true the life we are living now in brighton fills me with dread to think of the future services hmmmm.
What a joke. The Council is now after funds following the 'loan' of £14m to build the waste-of-time that will be the i360 thingy. Back in the Real World the residents are lacking services, facilities and support from the organisation they pay into...
meeting where ideas are thrown ariound no solution but the workers get good pay for passing the bucks literally
mimseycal
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11:41pm Fri 27 Jul 12
What a waste of money when so much is waiting to be done with regards to bad pavements, bad roads and a huge backlog on just about every statutory duty this council has ... and before HJarrs gets her topknot unravelled, no ... it isn't just the Greens. But they certainly haven't done anything to improve matters.
Crystal Ball says...
10:59am Fri 27 Jul 12
Back in the Real World the residents are lacking services, facilities and support from the organisation they pay into...