Area between Farringdon and Moorgate to become ‘culture mile’ over next 10-15 years including new Museum of LondonLondon’s Square Mile is known for being full of fast-moving finance workers and slow-moving traffic during the week, but hauntingly deserted at weekends. Plans were unveiled on Thursday for the “culture mile”, a 10 to 15-year initiative to transform the area between Farringdon and Moorgate. Catherine McGuinness, the chairman of the policy and resources committee at the City of London Corporation, said the ambition was to make the Square Mile as well known for culture as finance. Plans for the Museum of London, moving from its unloved position above a roundabout to the site of derelict Smithfield market buildings, are well advanced. Sir Nicholas Kenyon, the managing director of the Barbican Centre, said the culture mile initiative would exist and flourish irrespective of the concert hall project.

Source: The Guardian July 20, 2017 14:37 UTC