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 #Resident engagement with Destination City
-* [[dc:index|Destination City index]]
+* [[dc:index|Destination City overview]]
 * [[dc:posts|Blog posts about Destination City]]
 * [[dc:resources|Destination City resources]]
-* [[dc:QandA|Destination City questions]]\\
+* [[dc:forums|Citizens Forums]] \\
+The first phase of Destination City encouraged residents to engage with Destination City in this note circulated at the June 2023 City Question Time, reporting back on a question at the previous January event.
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-//From the note circulated at the June 2023 City Question Time, reporting back on a question at the previous January event.//
-**Latest**: The Corporation is rethinking its Destination City programme, with more emphasis on developing a Liveable City. See below.\\
-The residents' representative on the City Envoy Network, Brendan Barns, will be organising monthly Citizens Forums.The first event is on Monday 15 January 2024 from 6.30-8.30pm. It will be free to attend and hosted at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business at One Bartholomew Close. [Sign up here](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-of-london-citizens-forum-january-2024-tickets-764788160977?aff=oddtdtcreator).\\
-The December 2023 issue of the [City Resident newsletter](https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/about-the-city-of-london-corporation/publications) includes a survey about Destination City. Also available on the [Destination City explanatory page](https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/plans-policies/destination-city)\\
-Further engagement may be offered through the Residential Reset programme, but there's no details so far.
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-The original purpose of the Destination City programme was to attract more visitors and their spending: [[dc:resources|see presentation]]. That remains an important element. However, an evaluation of the Bartholomew Fair programme has prompted a rethink, with more emphasis on developing a Liveable City. Blog post:
-//[A reset for Destination City as Liveable City may be on the way](https://connections.commons.london/a-reset-for-destination-city/)\\
-On Monday this week the City Corporation publicly signalled a reset in the direction of its flagship Destination City programme, with more emphasis on promoting existing cultural and heritage attractions, rather than big events with bought-in acts. Residents will be offered more say. November 22 2023//
-The reset towards Liveable City makes engagement with residents all the more important, to discover what would work well for them, workers, and visitors. Here's [[https://connections.commons.london/cpa-report/|some ideas on where there may be common ground]] around design of streets and space in the public realm.
-Chris Hayward, the City of London policy chief - and in effect the Corporation's leader - [[https://connections.commons.london/destination-city-engagement/|said at a City Question Time]] in July 2023:\\
+Chris Hayward, the City of London policy chief - and in effect the Corporation's leader - [[https://connections.commons.london/destination-city-engagement/|followed up at the event to say]]\\
 //It is fundamental to have resident engagement in Destination City – “if you feel we’re not consulting widely enough on Destination City, or the more engagement residents could have, we want to know how precisely we do it … we want Destination City to be owned by the residents as much as by anybody else.”//
-At present there is no official information about Destination City for residents, clarity about how Destination City relates to other programmes, or methods for engagement. That's why, as an interested resident, I've put these pages together - while hoping Destination City will develop their own communications. Following a [public meeting about Destination City](https://connections.commons.london/destination-city-meeting/) I've suggested we need a Guide to what's hgappening. Blog post:
+Councillor Brendan Barns was subsequently appointed as residents' representative on the City Envoy Network. He has been organising monthly Citizens Forums, [[dc:forums|which I've reported on here]]. There is also a promised Residential Reset programme of engagement.
-//[Why we need a Guide to Culture Mile and Destination City](https://connections.commons.london/why-we-need-a-guide/)\\
+**Update**: [Square Mile residents lose their special Envoy to Destination City](https://connections.commons.london/residents-lose-their-special-envoy/)\\
-Plans to engage residents in Destination City highlight the need for accessible information about the Corporation’s flagship programme, and a main area for cultural development. I suggest we need a Guide to what’s happening and what’s planned, with councillors taking a lead in its development. November 2023.//
+Councillor Brendan Barns will no longer be the Envoy responsible for representing residents' views. July 17 2024
-So far we have some information about an Envoy for Destination City, and a proposed wider Residential Reset programme
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 ##The City Envoy
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 The note - image above - circulated to a City Question Time in June 2023 confirmed the commitment of the Envoy to "represent the collective views of residents".
-[[https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=2887|Brendan Barns]] was subsequently appointed, and presented ideas for resident engagement to the [[https://connections.commons.london/destination-city-meeting/|public meeting on November 7]]. Although the initial idea was for a residents' panel, Brendan now has something more creative in mind.
+[[https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=2887|Brendan Barns]] was subsequently appointed, and first presented ideas for resident engagement to the [[https://connections.commons.london/destination-city-meeting/|public meeting on November 7]]. Although the initial idea was for a residents' panel, Brendan has now developed a programme of Citizens Forums. [[dc:forums|More here]].
-He has volunteered to organise informal Citizens Forums, and the first event is on Monday 15 January 2024 from 6.30-8.30pm. It will be free to attend and hosted at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business at One Bartholomew Close. [Sign up here](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-of-london-citizens-forum-january-2024-tickets-764788160977?aff=oddtdtcreator).\\
 Contact <Brendan.Barns@cityoflondon.gov.uk> with any other queries or ideas for Destination City.
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 * [Initial membership of the City Envoy Network August 2022](https://news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/top-creative-director-appointed-to-boost-citys-leisure-offer/) - at the end of this release. Tania Harrison has since left the Destination City team.
-Here's [[dc:qanda|questions I drafted for the November 7 event]]\\
+**See update above**
+[Square Mile residents lose their special Envoy to Destination City](https://connections.commons.london/residents-lose-their-special-envoy/)\\
+Councillor Brendan Barns will no longer be the Envoy responsible for representing residents' views. July 17 2024
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 ##Residential Reset
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   * Liaise with City Corporation teams on the resident offer, and support elected members\\
-There's isn't anything yet on the [[https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/housing/resident-involvement|Corporation's page about Resident Involvement]], but I'll check for an update.
+So far the [[https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/housing/resident-involvement|page about Resident Involvement]] focusses mainly on activities on the Corporation's estates.
-There was an opportunity to question Chris Hayward and other senior City councillors at a City Question Time on December 14 6 pm at the Old Bailey, with a festive celebration afterwards. I had intended to ask a question, but the acoustics defeated me. [My blog post here](https://connections.commons.london/another-question-about-destination-city/)
 David Wilcox <david@socialreporter.com>