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From our Chief Executive John Nicholls With all our partners, public and private, we are making headway in delivering the master plan. Building work is in progress on all five of our key areas. Over half the 8,500 jobs targeted are in projects which have got as far as planning permission or beyond, as have about a third of the 8,000 or so new homes. So we’re heading in the right direction on quantity, but are we doing quite as well in terms of design quality? There are some new buildings of genuinely national or international architectural importance – the Performing Arts Centre, the John Lewis store and cinema, the LCB depot, the forthcoming Digital Media Centre and so on. I think developments like Colton Square and the Shoe Factory also set a pretty high standard. But there are plenty more, which I won’t single out, which are, at best, just ordinary. It seems to me that, as the momentum of regeneration grows, the emphasis needs to shift to raising the standards of the ordinary to that of the excellent. That needs effort and commitment by all the people involved, because those buildings will be part of the city for the next 50 years.
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