The independent voice of the city
January–February 2012 | Issue Nº9 | £2.95 www.norwichmagazine.co.uk
CLAIRE STEPHENSON’S ESTHER MORGAN LISTINGS, FUNNY FAREWELL ON THE TS ELIOT PREVIEWS TO UEA SCHOOL
BUSINESS OF MUSIC? IDEAL
CITY SHORTLIST AND MORE!
THE GREEN ISSUE A planned eco-town, a Transition Town, a research park, a hatful of Green councillors and more besides. Is Norwich the UK’s greenest city?
CONTENTS Issue Nº09 January–February 2012
GAZETTE
ENTERPRISE
EDITOR’S LETTER 05 What does it mean to be ‘green’?
RETHINKING THE WORLD 39 How academic initiatives at UEA are contributing to greener homes and businesses
LETTERS 07 UEA music school plea, NM goes to Germany, celebrating moustaches in Movember! CROSSGROVE 08 Julian Assange, the Norwich Gazette, a lost bike, the NDR INTERVIEW 09 Esther Morgan, shortlisted for the 2011 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry NEWS 10 Rail developments, Olympic honour, public sector strike, outstanding institutions IN THE PRESS 11 Grant Holt, topless barbers, robber fails, judges ‘bowled’ over
PHOTO: JOAKIM BORÉN (ESTHER MORGAN); TONY BUCKINGHAM (TRANSITION NORWICH); JEMMA MICKLEBURGH (COMEDY)
NEW COMMON SENSE 12 Do Premiership footballers earn too much? It’s all relative, says Wendy Roby POLITICS 13 Local MPs get stuck in, Labour names its Norwich South candidate, plus CouncilWatch IN PERSON 14 House-clearer Tony Ivany of Pig’s Ear, Coltishall HAPPENINGS 16 Inspirational projects, talks and training opportunities
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MOVER AND SHAKER 42 Business coach Anne Francis draws on 10 years of experience in her three enterprises THE OIL GAME 43 A new social enterprise is helping children understand complex sustainability issues
24 FEATURES
CULTURE FOOD 44 Don Pepe, St Benedict’s Street REVIEWS 45 The Norwich Knowledge, Andy Kirkham’s Shards, Chamber Orchestra Anglia, Naomi Clements-Wright, The Mighty Uke UEA MUSIC SCHOOL 46 The University Council has decided to close it, but the protesters aren’t giving up yet LISTINGS/PREVIEWS 48 Classical music 48 Comedy 49 Events & workshops 49 Exhibitions 51 Film 52 Jazz, contemporary & folk music 53 Literature 54 Rock & pop 54 Theatre & dance 56 PUZZLER 57 Win a magnum of champagne in our crossword competition!
Green belt battles 18
Belona Greenwood finds that opinions are divided on the greenfield eco-housing developments going on north-east of Norwich
Transition Norwich 24
Three years after the local network was set up, Sabine Virani explores its progress in promoting resilience and relocalisation in the city, and visits the flagship project, Norwich FarmShare
Comedy city 30
If comedy is ‘the new rock’n’roll’, why is Norwich such a draw? Lauren Razavi investigates the city’s thriving scene and talks to stand-up comics, promoters and venue bookers
Guide to greener living 34
Concerned about the environment but don’t know how to turn it into action? Laura Potts rounds up the green businesses, campaigns, local initiatives and groups on your doorstep
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DAILY BREAD 58 Claire Stephenson, leader of the Green Party group on Norwich City Council
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An Inspector Calls
January Wed 14 Dec 2011 - Sun 15 Jan 2012 SLEEPING BEAUTY Hayley Tamaddon, Kevin Sacre, Richard Gauntlett, Helen Fraser star in traditional family pantomime £5 - £19 Wed 4 January BEYOND THE BARRICADE West End musical hits £5.50 - £19.50 Tues 17 - Sat 21 Jan AN INSPECTOR CALLS Award-winning drama £5.50 - £22.50 Mon 23 - Sat 28 Jan HELLO DOLLY Norfolk & Norwich Operatic Society £5.50 - £19 Sun 29 Jan CLASSIC ROCK SHOW Rock anthems £5.50 - £21 Mon 30 Jan THE SOLIDIERS Singing trio £5.50 - £23
Sun 12 Feb THE KINGS OF SWING Tribute to Sinatra, Martin, Bennett and more £5.50 - £18.5 Tues 14 - Wed 15 Feb RICHARD ALSTON DANCE COMPANY Sparkling contemporary dance £5.50 - £18.50 Thur 16 Feb ELKIE BROOKS Great British singer £5.50 - £22.50 Fri 17 Feb THE CHUCKLE BROTHERS Pirate fun for all the family £5.50 - £14 Sat 18 - Sun 19 Feb JETHRO Mischievous adult humour £5.50 - £18.50 Mon 20 - Fri 24 Feb HORRIBLE HISTORIES Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians £5.50 - £15.50
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PAGE FIVE Editor’s letter
Green zone
PHOTO: ANDI SAPEY
«There are things we can all do: insulate lofts, ride bikes, recycle. These things we all know, and we know we could do more»
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hat does it mean to be ‘green’? As we began planning this issue of the magazine, the initial, half-formed thought was that the new year is a time of renewal and change, of making resolutions and turning over new leaves, so we could simply present a series of features and interviews on things readers could do to make themselves greener in 2012 than they had been in 2011. Easy as that. Who were we kidding? The more we looked at green issues, the less simple our task became. There are straightforward things we can all do, of course: insulate our lofts, ride our bikes, recycle whatever we can. These things we all know, and we know we could do more. But we discovered that there’s an enormous amount of environmental activity in Norwich. There are committed individuals and groups working hard to make a difference. There are scientists and educators seeking new solutions. There are entrepreneurs turning problems into opportunities. There are politicians fighting for environmental measures at local and national levels. And there are debates and controversies and impending decisions and legal challenges. So we dived right in. In the pages that follow, Belona Greenwood explores the issues surrounding the eco-town and other developments in the city’s ‘north-east growth triangle’, Sabine Virani takes us behind the scenes of the Transition Norwich initiative, and Bernie Sheehan talks to some forward-thinking academics and researchers at UEA. We also meet Claire Stephenson, leader of the Green Party group on the city council; Tom Harper, a social entrepreneur whose Oil Game introduces school children to new concepts and hard future choices; and Tony Ivany, a man whose house-clearance business is a form of recycling that’s been around for decades, if not centuries. Finally, Laura Potts has produced a list of green contacts for readers who want to get more involved. The next move is yours. On the cover we ask a flippant question: is Norwich the UK’s greenest city? It’s an unanswerable question (who decides on the criteria?) and it doesn’t much matter, except to our own sense of civic self-importance. What does matter, though, is that Norwich is a city where green issues are taken seriously. Besides green issues, is there anything else in this issue? Yes, there is! We join the crowds flocking to the city’s booming comedy scene, we report on the furious debate swirling around the decision to close of the UEA School of Music, and we meet Esther Morgan, the local poet whose recent collection has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. And the news you’ve been waiting for: at the British Society of Magazine Editors’ annual awards, Norwich Magazine was highly commended in the Launch of the Year category. The magazine, said the judges, is “setting a new standard in regional publishing”. This achievement is wholly down to the commitment, enthusiasm and creativity of the Norwich Magazine team and the local writers, photographers and illustrators whose amazing work fills every issue. To everyone who has worked so hard to make Norwich Magazine a success: thank you. Charlie Watson, Editor norwichmagazine January–February 2012 5
NEWS
BAROMETER
Carrying the flame Call for faster train service
Mercury rising: sunny skies
Olympic honour, strikes, rail lobbying, prizes
Chapelfield Gardens will be one of the 66 UK destinations to welcome the Olympic Torch Relay this summer. The Olympic Flame will be lit as part of a live broadcast from the gardens on Wednesday 4 July, during a celebration event staged by London 2012. The flame will leave Norwich the following day, eventually arriving at the Olympic Stadium on Friday 27 July for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Games.
Services hit by strike Thousands of public sector workers gathered outside City Hall as part of a national strike on 30 November. About 30 trades unions were represented on the march from City College, and there were picket lines outside many public service buildings. Norfolk County Council reported that 245 of its 430 schools were closed.
Best in class The Open Academy in Norwich was commended at the Structural Awards 2011. The £20 million new school, the UK’s largest solid timber panel building, was praised by Institution of Structural Engineers judges as “a stunning building that expertly showcases timber modular construction”.
Norwich North MP Chloe Smith chaired a rail summit at Westminster in December, when local MPs and business representatives put the case to Network Rail and train operators for investment and improvements in the region’s railways over the next 20 years. In February the Dutch company Abellio is due to take over from National Express East Anglia the operation of most train services in and out of Norwich. Track owner Network Rail is also planning its 2014–2019 budget. One of the key targets is ‘Norwich in 90’, trying to get quicker journey times between Norwich and London. According to an independent report commissioned in 2010, improvements on this line alone would bring a £3.7 billion boost to Norfolk’s economy.
Queen’s Award The University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing programme will be awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education in February. Last year UEA celebrated the 40th anniversary of its world-renowned Creative Writing MA, which counts Booker Prize-winners Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Anne Enright among its alumni. Left: the Open Academy in Norwich. The school has been commended in the 2011 Structural Awards, which recognise structural engineering excellence internationally
High pressure in the east
STUDENT LIFE
UEA triumphed at this year’s Whatuni Student Choice Awards, coming first overall and top five in nearly all the other categories
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INTIMATE MOMENTS
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EATING YOUR GREENS
A new variety of super-nutritious broccoli, has been developed by scientists at the Institute for Food Research \
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
The Low Carbon Innovation Fund, based at UEA, has announced an extra £10 million of funding available to support the sector
Mercury falling: overcast and gloomy OLD SCHOOL CLUBBERS
RIP, Norwich nightlife king Hy Kurzner (1933–2011) \
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The club will receive just £250,000 from Manchester City of the £1 million asking price for their promising young goalkeeper Angus Gunn (son of Bryan) \
HARRASSED PARENTS
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IN THE PRESS How the journos saw it
IN PRAISE OF GRANT HOLT
Andrew Woods, Sabotage Times, 28 November 2011 Grant Holt is partnering tiny Wes Hoolahan upfront at a Norwich City away game at Barnsley. The pair look like they’re playing in a father-and-son side. Wes is petite, his frame as feeble as a matchstick model of a Victorian orphan. Holt on the other hand is a walrus of a man. Holt’s giant head has proper cheeks and a discernible under-chin. The yellow number nine shirt looks like a stab-proof vest. The Barnsley fans mock the big man’s physique by lifting their shirts and patting their equally ample bellies. Holt just laughs and rips Barnsley to pieces. Norwich City’s Grant Holt is not the quickest player alive but what he lacks in speed he more than makes up for in guile. Barnsley nervously encircle him like the dogs of a Russian townsfolk waiting for a grizzly to dance… It will be a sad day when the last of the big men upfront are finally phased out, and the ripped rule the plains forever more. Kids of the future will flick through archived j-pegs of Cardiff’s Parkin and Holt and gasp that these lardy lumps were still being allowed to play professional football during this millennium. Grandfather might nod his head and tut, but deep down inside Gramps will know that something has been lost. That perfection is not always beguiling. \
DUMB AND DUMBER
Norwich Evening News, 16 November 2011 A robber has admitted holding up two bookmaker shops in Norwich and also stealing diamond rings worth more than £37,000 from a city jewellers. Jon Maddocks,
who owns Aurum jewellers, said he was not surprised that Mark Barton, 29, had admitted the theft from his shop. He said: “It was all caught on CCTV and his fingerprints were all over the shop. He initially fled down an alley that was a dead end.” \
A BIT MORE OFF THE TOP, PLEASE
Metro, 3 December 2011 A planning application submitted to Norwich City Council for a topless barber’s shop to be opened during the daytime at Qube nightclub in Prince of Wales Road has been dismissed as “ludicrous” and “a gimmick” by locals opposed to it. “I can’t see the connection between barbering and nudity,” said Gary Thompson, the owner of nearby GT barbers. Others have voiced their support for the plans. “Let people decide what they want with their own two feet,” wrote Facebook poster Christopher Reeve. Another, Frank Schuengel, added: “Great idea and good entrepreneurialism in difficult economic times.” \
TOILET HUMOUR
Norwich Evening News, 6 December 2011 A Norwich school has shown it is far from bog standard after scooping a national award for its toilets. School toilet campaigners have awarded Magdalen Gates Primary School in Bull Close Road, north of the city, the School Toilet Award. Natasha Collins-Daniel, of ERIC (Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence), said: “Magdalen Gates Primary has shown great commitment to its pupils by providing excellent toilet facilities.”
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ENTERPRISE University of East Anglia
Rethinking the world
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nnouncing the go-ahead for the new Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in November, Vice-Chancellor Professor Edward Acton said that “universities are about changing lives and rethinking the world: this project does both.” The Enterprise Centre project is certainly aiming high. The 3,000-sq m building will be one of the most pioneering in Europe, built from a high proportion of renewable materials such as timber, hemp and straw. As one of the largest PassivHaus structures to be constructed in the UK (PassivHaus is a building physics certification designed to reduce energy consumption by up to 90 per cent), it will demonstrate possibly the lowest carbon footprint of any non-domestic facility yet built, qualifying it for a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification. “As an architectural piece it will put Norwich on the map,” says Ben Binns, business innovation manager of Low Carbon Innovation Centre (LCIC) and InCrops Enterprise Hub, both based at UEA. “We hope it will add to the region’s built environment innovation. Norwich already has the largest cross-laminated timber structure in the UK in the Open Academy, and the use of PassivHaus is expanding in the region, including social housing.” The design competition has generated huge interest in architectural and structural engineering circles, and work is due to start on the Enterprise Centre next year, ready for opening
How important is academic research in the pursuit of greener ways to live? Several initiatives are under way at the University of East Anglia that are making an impact both locally and globally By Bernie Sheehan Illustrations: Jo Stafford in 2014. Significantly, more than 500 local businesses will be invited to workshops at a new Centre for the Built Environment in the building, which will address the challenges at every stage of the project brief, from design and construction to post-occupancy. “The new learnings will be given free to SMEs, and will help drive the local construction industry towards a low-carbon economy,” says Binns. As well as the LCIC and InCrops Enterprise Hub (which carry out research and consulting services for businesses across East Anglia), the building will house an early-stage incubator for new start-ups. The aim is to encourage UEA graduates and Norwich Research Park staff to set up their own businesses. The fact that the Enterprise Centre project has been awarded a £6 million grant from the European Regional Development Fund (the largest single ERDF grant in the region in the
current funding round) underlines UEA’s global reputation in the environmental sciences and the importance of the NRP to the local economy. The university’s contribution to developing the educational curricula for tomorrow’s world is acknowledged at the highest levels. Professor Bob Watson, DEFRA’s chief scientific adviser, said that the university’s MBA in strategic carbon management is “leading the field alongside innovative companies in demonstrating that being climate-friendly is good business.” The MBA is the first of its kind in the world, launched in 2008 to meet a gap in the market. There are currently 17 students on the full-time one-year course in Norwich (plus a further 10 studying part-time at UEA’s London centre). The MBA is designed to give students not only a sound understanding of responsible business practice, but an in-depth knowledge of the impacts of climate change and the low-carbon economy, and how these will define new boundaries, management requirements and opportunities for organisations. The programme includes lectures and masterclasses by expert speakers, and the chance to carry out consultancy projects with companies such as Adnams, 3M, Rio Tinto and KPMG. “It’s a new area for business that’s evolved massively in the last few years,” says Dr Gideon Middleton, senior lecturer in business and climate change, and the MBA course director. “If you don’t consider the social and environmental issues of your operations, then your strategic decision-making is flawed. You don’t norwichmagazine January–February 2012 39
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see the whole picture.” Middleton, a former marine scientist, speaks with extensive experience of the corporate world. Before joining the Norwich Business School he worked as a corporate responsibility and environmental manager at blue-chip companies such as Kingfisher (B&Q, Screwfix), Wincanton, DHL, Network Rail and Orange. While at Orange in the late 1990s, for example, he launched the first environmental report for a UK-based mobile phone operator and at Kingfisher he was member of the CBI working group on carbon reporting. “Some companies are actively hostile to green issues, but they are denying potential customers. Others, like Adnams locally, actively embrace being responsible, they think ‘Why not?’ It’s embedded in their corporate DNA,” says Middleton. In a fast-moving area, climate change risk-management is emerging as a trend. “Businesses need to know how to understand the physical risks of climate change, how it affects the supply chain. In the case of a company like Adnams, it might include risks such as the flooding of major roads, the impact on the barley crop or the price of fertilisers (because of the cost of energy rising).” In the context of summers like the one we’ve just had, he says, understanding the physical risks of climate change helps businesses decide what to do strategically by predicting possible future scenarios. The process of adapting to climate change and reducing emissions can also identify new business opportunities. The current MBA cohort includes self-funding students from nearly every continent and includes a high proportion of engineers – not surprising, given the ascendancy of energy efficiency in the building and engineering sectors. Former students have gone on to manage high-profile projects around the world. One recent graduate is now heading up the Australian office of the Carbon Disclosure Project, a global climate change-reporting programme. Middleton gets regular requests to run the MBA course overseas, but he believes that other options, such as short four or five-day courses leading to a qualification in carbon management, or even bespoke courses for businesses, run in-house, may be more practical. Middleton is also working with City College Norwich on a Dragon’s Den-style ‘eco-business challenge’. Each team contains design, business and engineering students. Middleton gave the A-level and Access students some basic eco-awareness training and they are being mentored by experienced businessmen and women in the area. The idea is to come up with a sustainable business idea but also to embed the concepts of eco-business in the students’ consciousness. “We’re trying to get engineers out of their silos,
and artists to be more practical with their designs. Engaging the students to come up with creative solutions is extraordinarily beneficial to business. A product has to be well designed, such as the iPhone, because people ‘buy with their eyes’.” UEA achieved another high-profile coup recently when a joint research submission by Dr George Chryssochoidis of Norwich Business School and Dr Charlie Wilson of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research was awarded £355,000 by the UK Energy Research Centre. The Low Carbon Innovation Centre at UEA is also participating and DIY retailer B&Q is a partner in the research. The team will look at the reasons why people make home-renovation decisions, in the context of the government’s new Green Deal scheme, which is due to be launched in the autumn. Under the scheme, authorised companies will pay for home-insulation work and other energy-saving measures, and homeowners will repay the money, plus interest, through additional charges on their energy bills. The UEA submission beat bids from 10 rival consortia. “What is becoming more and more important for funding agencies is to fund projects that have a direct, evident impact on the commercial world or on public policy-making, so collaboration with bodies outside academia is important,” says Chryssochoidis. “In order to fulfil this emerging model we invited B&Q to participate in our submission. It was an important factor in our success because B&Q is currently the biggest player in the UK homerenovation market.” The two-year research project started in October 2011 and will combine evidence of actual consumer behaviour (based on in-depth research with B&Q customers around the country, and Norfolk-based home renovators, sourced through colleagues at the LCIC), with both qualitative and quantitative research. “For the first time we will combine, but also simultaneously analyse, experimental and survey data for this purpose,” says Chryssochoidis. “Surveys are excellent to capture people’s perceptions and beliefs, but not their actual behaviours. The latter is done better through experiments. We have the methodology for understanding the behaviour of individuals, but also the manage-
«UEA’s MBA in strategic carbon management is the first of its kind in the world»
«One recent MBA graduate is now heading up the Australian office of the Carbon Disclosure Project, a global climate change-reporting programme» ment’s point of view – how service providers such as B&Q and other industry but also public policy-makers interpret and translate people’s behaviour and make decisions based on that.” The relationship with research partner B&Q is mutually supportive, says Dr Charlie Wilson: “They have access to our research and we have access to their industry expertise and to the homeowners they have worked with to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. B&Q sell energy-efficiency products but are also moving into energy-efficient kitchen and bathroom renovations. They were one of the companies involved in four big government trials [PAYS – Pay As You Save] to discover what Green Dealtype financing might look like. We’ve been able to piggyback on their experience and learning.” As the Green Deal will come into effect halfway through the project, Wilson says it’s a perfect opportunity to discover what energyefficiency renovations people did before and after, to see how the scheme impacts on their decision-making and investigate how consumer decisions will affect uptake of the Green Deal. It is hoped that the research will ultimately help to reduce the UK’s energy use and carbon emissions. Meanwhile, as the project continues, Wilson agrees that it’s “fantastically helpful” to have a network of environmental research organisations on the doorstep at the Norwich Research Park. The initial approach to B&Q, for example, came about through Gideon Middleton’s relationship with the company (see above). “And I play football with one of the Low Carbon Innovation Centre team here,” says Wilson. “That kind of rapport is really important for collaborations.” pwww.uea.ac.uk www.lcic.com www.incropsproject.co.uk www.tyndall.ac.uk www.decc.gov.uk norwichmagazine January–February 2012 41
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