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Imagine Lincoln 2020
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IMAGINE LINCOLN
2020
One of the world’s great small cities
A vision for the future of our city
IMAGINE LINCOLN
There is a new sense of purpose and place about Lincoln.
The rapid academic and physical development of a University of Lincoln has had a profound
impact upon a shire seat with a strong sense of history. The university has begun to give back
to the city the drive and status it enjoyed in medieval times.
2020
One of the world’s great small cities
And the world is beginning to take note.
The potential for Lincoln to become one of the IMAGINE
world’s great small cities is ours for the taking.
We need imagination - a bold vision of Lincoln in Imagine one of the world’s great small cities,
the future as a basis for planning the city. recognised globally for its creativity, excellent
networks, quality of life and good governance -
Most of all we need the collective will to make a truly attractive place to live, work and play.
it happen, and recognition of the missed
opportunity if we fail. Imagine a city recognised as ‘well connected’
in every sense - well networked socially as a
As a contribution to this agenda The Futures community, locally and globally, with excellent
Academy from Dublin was invited to the transport communications and high-powered
university to help an ad hoc Lincoln Futures electronic connectivity.
Group learn how to stand our thinking on its
head by ‘imagining forwards and planning Imagine a city with friends and partners with high
backwards’. Encouragement from a wider integrity and global standing. A city judged by
audience, following the workshop, to take the the company it keeps.
work further has resulted in this document. Imagine a city at the leading edge of the
Lincoln 2020 is not a prescription. It is one vision creative industries in the UK, where university
of a great small city in 2020 with a leading edge and industry work seamlessly in partnership,
and, hopefully, a stimulus for the vision for the generating wealth and new media
city in 2020 in which all citizens will play an active businesses globally.
part. Planning for the future can no longer be left Imagine a city where lifestyle and work
to the specialists - it must be people-based and are in harmony with exemplary health
truly collaborative. and social services and a vibrant arts
I am immensely grateful to Professor John and cultural programme.
Ratcliffe, staff of The Futures Academy at DIT, Imagine a city renowned for its community
Ireland and the ad hoc Lincoln Futures Group volunteering, a giving city with a strong,
who have contributed selflessly to produce inclusive ethical code of conduct practised
this report. extensively by its citizens.
David Chiddick Imagine a city well governed with ethical
University of Lincoln leadership where the community is
empowered and all interests work together
in an ‘All in Lincolnshire Partnership’.
Imagine an historic cathedral city where
conservation and tradition are complemented
by inspiring modern architecture and attractive
urban spaces.
Imagine Lincoln in 15 years’ time - this could
be your city in 2020.
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IMAGINE LINCOLN
2020
One of the world’s great small cities
Imagine one of the world’s great small cities
Lincoln 2020 is a welcoming city within its own community and with the world. What is needed Imagine a Chinese politician visiting
In 2005 the city set up the Lincoln Futures Academy based at the University of Lincoln for a G10 conference staged
Lincoln. One of the outcomes from the first vision for our great city was a strategic Joined up Greater Lincoln in the city for the first time in 2015.
and Greater Lincolnshire
master-planning process for Greater Lincoln even though, at that time, four local Strategic Plans.
Professor Liu Ming is a senior minister in the
authorities had an interest in this still relatively small city. The 2006-16 masterplan An Integrated Transport Plan People’s Republic of China. A graduate of
set the structural framework for all aspects of the city’s development, for Greater Lincoln focusing
on all modes of transport
Tangshan University, Professor Ming studied
including transportation. with special focus on park for her MA in Politics and Economics at the
and ride facilities, bus and University of Lincoln in 2010. The two
bicycle lanes and
pedestrianisation schemes. universities have developed profound
In 2020 movement around Lincoln is easy since Super-fast broadband networks across the partnerships in teaching, research and
the rail freight traffic was diverted out of the city, county link to the Brayford Satellite Uplink, A recognition that, without
essential investment, knowledge transfer since 2004, spinning off a
a dual ring road was completed around the city making Lincoln a hub of global media Lincolnshire will continue to number of joint venture companies.
and free park and ride facilities were opened communications. Greater Lincolnshire is known hold back economic
development plans for the
north and south with priority ‘green bus’ and as the most e-networked area in the country, a East Midlands and so is the
Professor Ming will be giving a keynote
cycle lanes throughout Lincoln. feature which facilitates an enhanced work/life key to regional emergence address to the G10 summit, being held at
balance for urban/rural living away from the as a leader in Europe. Riseholme Park campus, on global cooling.
Global links were made easier with inter-city rail
congested south-east. Approved capital Riseholme Park has emerged as a world
connections reintroduced in 2006, the infrastructure expenditure conference centre and an exemplar of best
completion of the dualling of the A46 to the M1 The city centre pedestrian area extends into the over the 2006-16 plan period
of £600m. practice in environmental sustainability.
in 2011, fast road links to both the east coast southern High Street and the Brayford Pool.
holiday and conference resorts and to the East
The ease of access to and around Lincoln has
Midlands port of Boston and the opening of
stimulated a strong tourist industry, with the city
Lincoln International Airport at Brigg all in the
now one of the leading historic cities for visitors
same year.
to the UK.
And Lincoln has become a magnet for major
world academic and political conferences at its
premier league university, established just over
25 years ago. Greater Lincoln’s exemplary
governance and first-class transport and
electronic communications provide an essential
backcloth to meetings between world leaders in
the refurbished Old Bishop’s Palace at the
university’s Riseholme Park campus.
Lincoln 2020 is a small city that thrives on the
global stage.
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IMAGINE LINCOLN
2020
One of the world’s great small cities
A great place to live
Lincoln is a city whose citizens have a strong, inclusive, What is needed Imagine a Professor
ethical code of conduct in local governance and business, where of Primary Care Medicine.
A commitment by
equality is practised and diversity celebrated. It is a city that has businesses, the voluntary Professor Lucy Martin graduated
sector, education, local in Medicine in 2002 from the University of
embraced its personal and collective identities and cultural authorities and NHS trusts to
Leicester, spending some time in her final year
work together to focus on
differences - an inclusive city. those health, social and at the then United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust
cultural issues which will (now Lincolnshire University Hospitals Trust).
make a measurable change
It is a world centre for community volunteering recognised world excellence for research and to the quality of life for the Following six years in Leeds where she qualified
and charitable giving with many charities’ development work in what was once termed residents of city and county.
as a psychiatrist and general practitioner, she
headquarters located in the city. ‘complementary’ but what is now known as Approval of a Lincoln completed the first PhD (in Community Health)
‘integrated medicine’. Medical School.
from the new Lincoln Medical School in 2010.
For its citizens, flexible working hours,
caring employers and accessible recreational The cathedral is the main attraction in the city - A viable plan for the Lincoln
Arts Centre. In 2020 Professor Martin holds a unique position
and cultural facilities help keep lifestyle and for pilgrimage, retreats or simply appreciation as a Professor of Primary Care and Medical
Granting of World Heritage
work in balance. of its inspiring architecture. There is growing Status to the Cathedral Director of the Acute Trust (LUHT) emphasising
sense of a ‘guiding hand’ in 2020 which has Quarter of Lincoln.
the integrated medicine philosophy pioneered
School meals are locally sourced and all
rekindled a spiritual partnership between the at Lincoln Medical School.
schools offer a breakfast at the start of the day. A ‘quality of life’ agenda at
cathedral and the university, redolent of a the heart of the newly formed
The city boasts exemplary health and social powerful medieval tradition. Since the cathedral, Lincolnshire Assembly.
services backed up by the Lincoln Medical castle and Hillside Quarter (including The Lincoln world address/host
School opened in 2008. By 2013 the school had Collection) were designated a World Heritage for an international (NGO)
body.
not only remedied the serious shortfall in Site in 2010, international interest in Lincoln has
qualified health and social care professionals expanded dramatically.
in Lincolnshire, it had also developed
Throughout Lincoln there is a vibrant arts and
cultural programme - a major attraction not only
to local people and tourists but also to
delegates attending the many conferences now
staged in the city.
The Brayford Wharf Arts Quarter, with the
Lincoln Arts Centre and Lincoln Central Library,
provides a hub to an extensive programme of
performing and visual arts across the county.
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IMAGINE LINCOLN
2020
One of the world’s great small cities
A highly creative city
Lincoln has established itself as a world leader in the new media and What is needed Imagine a media entrepreneur.
creative industries alongside Tangshan and Chicago over recent years. Tom Bray (28) is a successful media
A joined-up economic entrepreneur. Tom graduated from the
strategy and an agreed focus
The University of Lincoln adopted a bold plan in Lincoln School of Art and Design and the on discrete achievable University of Lincoln in 2013 in Media
2003 to recruit leading academics and leading Chicago Art School. Today, satellite links
outcomes through the newly Development, started the New Internet
formed Lincolnshire
practitioners in the media and computing fields and ease of transport between the cities have Assembly (April 2005). Company (NIC) in the Brayford
and set up an incubator centre for its graduates created three centres of excellence in the Incubator Centre, rented space on the
Big ideas to transform
funded by the then East Midlands Development creative industries. Lincoln’s and Lincolnshire’s new Brayford Innovation Park and
Agency (now Regional Authority). This was economic performance. used the East Midlands Media and
followed in 2006 by the opening of the East At Riseholme Park, an exemplar of best practice Critical friends and Computing Centre to upload his
Midlands Media and Computing centre on the in environmental and economic sustainability, a international champions of products onto the Lincoln Satellite.
the University of Lincoln.
Brayford campus with the only satellite uplink major industry has grown up around the science Widespread support to
The company, which was jointly
north of London in the UK - and the rest, as they park, opened in 2007 and specialising in complete the university’s owned by Tom and the university,
development. was sold in 2019 for 1 billion.
say, is history. companies researching and generating energy
from crops. Support through training and Tom now spends some of his time
market development of
Today the university and industry work successful indigenous
teaching at the university, inspiring
seamlessly in partnership, generating wealth and The Lincoln Edge Ltd, a private sector-led companies. new undergraduates to follow in
new media businesses globally. Rural living (and regeneration company spun off from the Development of Greater
his footsteps and advising cities
working) for media entrepreneurs has become Lincolnshire Assembly (founded in 2005 as part Lincoln as a hub of across the globe on academic
of Lincolnshire Enterprise), acts as the catalyst entrepreneurial activity. entrepreneurship.
the dominant and most productive workforce in
the East Midlands, transforming what was 15 for economic development for the Greater Approval of the Lincoln and
Riseholme Masterplan.
The 21st century will belong to the
years ago the most depressed sub-region of the Lincoln Authority. Two of its most significant
individual and the achiever, to those
East Midlands economy. achievements have been promoting the build-up Host to a major international
event. capable of exercising their
of Lincoln as a centre for academic and world
independence, responsibility and
The partnership with Tangshan, also a one-time leadership conferences and sponsoring the
initiative, whatever their role in society
great engineering city, flourished as the transformation of the engineering companies
generally.
universities in both cities ‘joined forces’ in new that once supplied gas turbine industry into a
media R&D. The Chicago link came through a niche leading-edge group of companies in the
gradual build-up of mutual respect between the specialist engineering market.
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IMAGINE LINCOLN
2020
One of the world’s great small cities
A well governed city
A Lincolnshire Assembly, formed in April 2005, Imagine an Executive Mayor
provided for the first time an ‘All in Lincolnshire for Lincoln.
Partnership’. Chaired by the Bishop of Lincoln,
the assembly has now evolved to include: Mayor Emmanuel Porto was born in Portugal
and came to south Lincolnshire to work in the
local government leaders food industry in 2004. Following an English
community leaders as a Foreign Language course (EFL) and basic
the cathedral, diocese and leading faiths FE courses in food hygiene, he studied at the
business University’s Holbeach campus for a Foundation
Degree in Food Manufacturing, completing an
Lincoln Edge Ltd, an urban regeneration
honours degree at the Brayford campus.
company formed in 2006
He was employed by one of the first energy-
university and colleges. from-crops firms to locate on the Riseholme
The partnership and local authorities are Science Park in 2008 and became its Chief
recognised nationally as exemplary models of Executive in 2015. As a resident of the new
ethical leadership and advocacy. New leaders Riseholme village in 2008 he was Chair of the
have emerged though the Common Purpose first Parish Association, becoming a councillor
programme set up in 2005 which provided a on Greater Lincoln City Council in 2010.
framework for active and collective learning. He was elected Executive Mayor for the
city in 2019, since which time he has taken a
sabbatical from his company to devote his full
What is needed time to this role which combines the one-time
All partners in the city The Lincolnshire Assembly Chief Executive and Leader roles of the City
and county need generosity should be supported and Council. Mayor Porto also takes part in
of spirit and altruism if an urban regeneration
a relevant and effective company (Lincoln Edge ceremonial and civic functions, but many
Lincoln is a city putting The local authority structure in Greater governance system is to Ltd) for Greater Lincoln fewer since the Parish Associations in
Lincolnshire was fundamentally reformed in be introduced. established at the earliest
urban and rural communities were given
consultative democracy to work, 2010, extending the boundary of the county All levels of governance
opportunity.
extended powers.
with imagination and in the back to the Humber as a Greater Lincolnshire must exhibit and practise
a strong code of ethical and
An Executive Mayor
would head up the new
unitary authority and forming a unitary Greater
interests of people as citizens. Lincoln Authority with an Executive Mayor.
hence trusted leadership. expanded Greater Lincoln
Unitary Council.
Local government should be
At local level urban and rural parishes were constructed around natural The city should embrace the
economic boundaries - ‘new localism’ model which
recast, providing an increased voice and Greater Lincoln and Greater provides ‘a key and growing
scope for community empowerment including Lincolnshire. Partners in role for local involvement in
Lincolnshire should argue decision-making about the
self-management of housing for older citizens collectively for legislation public services and the
through Parish Associations. to that effect. public realm as part of a
wider system of multi-level
governance’ (Stoker 2005).
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IMAGINE LINCOLN
2020
One of the world’s great small cities
A sustainable cathedral city
Greater Lincoln City is an attractive, liveable city, attentive What is needed
to people’s everyday needs and a model of ‘good design’. Imagine a Principal Architect.
A countywide design guide
It is a city with inspirational architecture (ancient and modern) and including best practice in the Paul McGregor was a young architect
use of sustainable materials.
a true sense of place with open spaces celebrated by well designed Landscape-cum-masterplans
in a leading London practice when he
first worked on one of the University of
natural and built landscapes. and development briefs
for the Cathedral and Lincoln’s new buildings in 2006. He
Brayford Quarters. adopted the city, setting up his own
For example, since the granting of World Much of the university masterplan was Benefits to the local practice in Lincoln in 2007. In the
Heritage status, the Cathedral Quarter has been completed by 2010 with an outstanding public community from new same year the Lincoln School of
development through a
transformed with the immediate environs of the park at its heart and a 24/7 square adjoining comprehensive planning Architecture contracted Paul to lead
cathedral opened up – lawns on the north side, St Marks at its western end. In 2010 the gain policy. the Lincolnshire Design Guide project
the ‘well’ filled in on the east side and a dramatic university received several national and An uncompromising team. In 2008 the guide was produced
improvement to the landscape and its international awards for the quality of its built approach to a Percentage and it had an immediate impact, filling
to Art Policy for all new
management from Westgate through the castle environment at the Brayford campus. developments.
the gap in best practice in aesthetic
to The Lawn. The castle has in effect become an and environmental design.
Sustainability at the core of
extension to Westgate with all barriers removed. By 2010 Riseholme Park had also been all environmental policies. Paul is now a Visiting Professor to the
This upper Cathedral Quarter is a favourite developed as a model of best practice in
school but also travels Europe talking
venue for external events - not just the environmental sustainability with a new
extensively about the guide, now in its
Christmas Market. sustainable village and a park and ride facility
third updated edition.
using electric buses powered from fuel from
The Brayford Pool area has gone through crops. The Riseholme Science Park focuses
several transformations since 2005. Increased on energy-from-crops industries.
site values have encouraged regeneration,
even of properties built around that time. The Lincoln School of Architecture produced a
With increased demand the city has been able new design guide for best practice in urban and
to develop a masterplan for the Brayford which rural design and sustainability in 2008, in
requires the very highest standards of design. partnership with all local authorities. The Lincoln
A niche specialist shopping and restaurant zone Design Guide has become a national model of
on north Brayford and a substantially rebuilt St best practice and has been adopted by local
Marks Shopping Centre have assisted the city’s authorities across the country.
emergence as a leading international conference
and visitor centre. Reclamation and recycling is undertaken by the
city council at no cost. In fact, the city is able to
generate a profit from this part of its work with
the increased cost of raw materials and
reduction of fossil fuels.
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What happens if we fail to adopt Acknowledgements
such a vision for Lincoln 2020?
There may be a tacit acceptance by some that Lincoln will find its Lincoln Futures Group
Andrew Atherton
way without a paradigm shift in the way that it ‘works’. But the Penny Baker
evidence suggests that in 2005 Lincolnshire is failing relative to the Roy Bentham
Michael Betton
rest of the UK, and that it will continue to do so unless something Peter Boswell
more energising happens. Ian Cairns
David Chiddick
There are a number of encouraging signs of a But what if we don’t aspire to Derek Cottrell
partnership at all levels emerging with a passion and achieve such a vision? Pat Doody
to make a difference. That partnership founded a Lincoln(shire) will decline further as the most David Mullaney
university in 1996, a unique occurrence in the UK failing economy in the East Midlands and one Mike Roberts
in the past half-century. It is coming together of the most failing economies in the UK Vincent Shacklock
again in 2005 in the Lincolnshire Assembly. Paul Williamson
The city will become more isolated nationally
This short booklet has illustrated what might be and more congested locally
possible if a vision were carried though. Unemployment will rise whilst key jobs Dublin Futures Academy
remain unfilled in the health service John Ratcliffe
The university may fail or become elitist and Ruth Kelly
marginalised from the rest of Lincoln(shire) Julie Gannon
The population will contract as emigration
of indigenous people grows
Racial tension will increase
There will be a greater urban and rural divide
Tourism and cultural improvements will fail
Local businesses may relocate out of Lincoln
Lincoln will become a run-down city
with a poorly maintained cathedral
The city will become leaderless
Local governance in Lincolnshire will become
isolated from the community it serves.
So why are we all not pushing for a bold vision
and greater change?
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