by The Canterbury Society | Jun 14, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
About time too. On Thursday 27 May Canterbury City Council announced an ambitious – and expensive – plan to transform the city into a world-class tourist destination. In April, I lamented the shabby and half-hearted manner in which we present our very special city,...
by The Canterbury Society | Jun 13, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
What do the local election results in Canterbury mean? With a 17 per cent shift to Labour in the county votes in the city centre, they buck the main trend in England — of seven per cent gains by the Conservatives. Local Conservatives would prefer to see them as a...
by The Canterbury Society | Jun 11, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
At last there is a glimmer of light at the end of the COVID tunnel. The NHS—after a year of heroic effort to combat the pandemic –now will be looking to what has to be done to meet the needs of the future. Here, in East Kent, there is no question that there has...
by The Canterbury Society | Apr 23, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
Last Tuesday I became a tourist. I didn’t pack bags and fly off in defiance of Covid regulations, but paid a visit to my own city, Canterbury, as a putative outsider. I wanted to find out what the place looked and felt like to someone arriving for the first time. I...
by The Canterbury Society | Mar 22, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
by Richard Norman, Organiser, Canterbury Forum Working Group Most readers of Canterbury News will know that last year Canterbury City Council decided to abolish its Area Forums. Local people therefore decided to take things into their own hands and run the Forums...
by The Canterbury Society | Jan 25, 2021 | Analysis: behind the news
Dan Watkins is the Canterbury City Councillor with the main Climate Change brief. Now that the Council has approved his ‘Climate Action Plan’, what will it mean in practice? Why does it tackle just 2% of our emissions? Will it actually happen? Neasa MacErlean talks to...
