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Welcome to the March 2020 edition of the Southside newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest developments in the Broadmarsh area and other major redevelopments in Nottingham.
 Redevelopment of the Broadmarsh area took another step forward as a formal ‘topping out’ ceremony took place on top of the six storey structure of the new Broadmarsh Car Park, Bus Station and Central Library development. Representatives from Nottingham City Council the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership and contractors Galliford Try met onsite to mark a key construction milestone on the site that has reached its full height. Work on the new development will continue until early 2021 when the bus station and car park are expected to open. The new library will follow later in the year. Read more on the My Nottingham News website.
 Plans to transform the former Boots Island site have taken a step forward as the developer behind the scheme begins work to clear the site. Conygar received outline planning permission for the major development in April 2019 and work is now starting to prepare the site, which will be transformed as part of the regeneration of the southern side of the city. The development will be re-named ‘The Island Quarter’, and will comprise new homes, grade A office space, creative market space, a five-star hotel, retail units, a ‘linear’ park and community space and student accommodation. Read more on the My Nottingham News website.
 Nottingham is expected to have one of the fastest growing city economies in the UK over the next three years, according to a major new report. The Regional Economic Forecast published by financial services company EY predicts that Nottingham’s economy will expand by 2.1 per cent per year between 2020 and 2023, putting it alongside Manchester (2.2%); Bristol (2%) and Cambridge (2%) as the UK’s fastest growing cities and outperforming overall growth for English regions of 1.8% and for the East Midlands of 1.6%.Read more on the My Nottingham News website.
 Enabling works have begun for the construction of Crocus Place, a Grade A office development in Nottingham’s Southside. Demolition has begun of a disused factory, known locally as the Hiltons Warehouse site, near the tram bridge over Queens Road below Nottingham Station. This site will act as the site compound when works begin on Crocus Place later in the year. The new development would add to the increasingly popular Southside area, complementing HMRC’s new regional headquarters at Unity Square, which is currently under construction, refurbished Grade A office space at City Buildings on Carrington Street and the Bildurn development on Station Street. Read more on the My Nottingham News website
 The City Council is looking at the need for roadworks to proceed around the city on a case-by-case basis while Highways England continues to carry out repairs to Clifton Bridge for the rest of the year. The council had already started to allow off-peak lane closures for some works around the city, and now needs to allow other works to proceed, with all changes monitored and kept under review. Some essential utility works that have been given the go-ahead involve essential upgrades to electrical supply and gas mains on Canal Street. The council is working with Western Power Distribution and Cadent Gas , who are undertaking renewal and expansion programmes in the area, so that the two companies coordinate their works and reduce the amount of time on site to minimise traffic disruption. Read more on the My Nottingham News website.
 Significant renovation works at Nottingham’s famous landmark, the Ducal Palace, are progressing well and 15km of scaffold tubing has now been removed to make way for the next stage of restoration at the historic site. Works to the Palace until this point have involved stripping back and returning the site to its original 1870s state, including the removal of the roof following a number of modifications since the 19th century. You can watch the video of the installation and removal of the scaffolding on the Nottingham City Council YouTube channel.
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