More details are slowly emerging from Norwich City Council about the South City Centre Regeneration Plan (not necessarily the official title). Rumours are abound and well ahead of the information available from City Council, however we’ve been asked to make it clear that the £10million rumour is far from accurate. The City Council have confirmed that they’ve [...]

King Street Cultural Quarter is pleased to offer a limited number of FREE pitches for stalls to members for the 4 June – King Street Big Lunch & Jubilee Celebration. There are 5 indoor pitches at Dragon Hall, 10 outdoor pitches at ABC Wharf, and 3 outdoor pitches in the garden of the Julian Centre. Stallholders [...]

As the King Street Community Voices project comes to an end, there are a series of events planned to celebrate the work and show off this area of Norwich. There will be new displays featuring audio and video interviews, archive photograph, documents and items relating to the lives, work and leisure of ordinary people in [...]

With the help of the Norwich City Council Arboricultural officer and others, efforts are currently underway to plant some much needed trees along King Street. Hopefully this will be funded through a King Street Cultural Quarter application for a Defra-funded grant under their Big Tree Plant initiative. Once agreement has been reached within the Council, [...]

Do you have news that you’d like to share with everyone? Well we would love you to submit your news and press releases to the website – www.kingst.co.uk You can do this very easily.  Contact Jason, the Cultural Quarter Chair (chair@kingst.co.uk) and he will add you as an Author for the website and you’ll be [...]

The website is up and running and we’d love you to add your events to it. You can add virtually any type of event, from Walking Tours to Art Exhibitions, from Workshops to Karate Classes. To add events, click on the ‘Click here to add Events’, which appears on every page on the website, just [...]

Any suggestions of places we can find funding? The immediate need is to pay for some regular secretarial work to hold together the Cultural Quarter. There will be funding needed for events and the projects that the members want to see happening. If you know of funding pots or would like to sponsor the work [...]

The King Street Cultural Quarter won’t work without business support.  So we’d like to list all the organisations in the Cultural Quarter on the website: www.kingst.co.uk If you’d like your organisation listed, please fill out the membership form on the website: www.kingst.co.uk/membership/ We’ll then email you and request a logo, a couple photos and some [...]

The King Street Cultural Quarter will only be as good as the people involved. At the moment there is the main committee, which has gained the name of the Executive Committee, but this seems a little formal.  Suggestions of a less formal name would be great. There is also a sub committee which is concentrating [...]

The events committee have been looking at event possibilities for the Cultural Quarter. Originally there was a suggestion that the King Street Festival should be started again.  Whether that is wanted by the community will become clear over time, but there is definitely support for community events. Events will only happen with good support, so [...]

The development of the King Street Cultural Quarter is all about the members of the Quarter.  The more people who join, the better the representation and chance of carrying out projects. If you haven’t already filled in the membership form online, please do.  Membership is FREE, whether you are an individual or an organisation. You [...]

A big thank you to Natasha and Brenda, without them the Cultural Quarter wouldn’t have existed.  They’ve been carrying out the organisational & secretarial side of the King Street Cultural Quarter, but sadly their contracts at Dragon Hall will finish in March.  We wish them luck with new projects. As such we need to find [...]

 The finial design for the new walking signs on King Street There are plans for new walking signs along King Street and the Riverside, to link our part of the City to the walking signage elsewhere in the City centre. Signs around the City, including the Station, will signpost walkers to King Street.  Once walkers are [...]

The Sports Hall at Wensum Lodge, in King Street was closed by Norfolk County Council in late 2010, having been allowed to fall into disrepair. The County Council has at last offered a viable leasing arrangement that will allow Friends of Wensum Lodge to return the hall to public use. This follows a year of [...]

Closely linked to trade and industry by its proximity to the River Wensum, King Street has experienced highs and lows over the centuries – from being one of the City’s oldest and most important streets, lined with high-status housing for merchants and civic leaders, to a slum area of squalid yards and red light activity. [...]