Thriving businesses and productive buildings
After listening to your views as a vital part of the Our City Centre York project (previously named the My City Centre project), the Our City Centre York vision has now been approved.
The nature of commerce in the high street is changing fundamentally and rapidly, and it takes significant investment in time and resource (and exposure to risk) for landowners and businesses to adapt their assets in response to this change.
We want to create a city centre where:
- vibrant mixed-use buildings can co-exist
- innovation and growth can happen
- the goods and services on offer can respond dynamically to consumer demand
We want to do this in a way which uses the city’s existing buildings to best advantage. To achieve all of this, we need to ensure that our processes are sufficiently flexible, facilitative and responsive, whilst maintaining appropriate controls where necessary.
Ideas for creating thriving businesses and productive buildings
Explore and encourage:
- city centre businesses to thrive and adapt through a supportive regulatory environment and creating a city centre people want to visit
- businesses to improve operational sustainability
- our independent businesses
- temporary uses in empty buildings and spaces
- re-use of the under-used upper floors of buildings
- tours and experiences to explore historic buildings
Also see
Our City Centre York
Delivering a new vision for York’s city centre