It's a city where at 6:30 on any given evening the restaurants and the bars and the hotels are often filled with people clinking glasses at something called a fund-raiser.
"It is important having more people live in the city centre, that's what will bring the city centre more alive especially in the evening times where all of us feel that it empties too quickly and it will provide trade for restaurants and cafes in the evening as well as lunchtime, " added Mr Graham.