‘Ghost town UK’: 5,000 businesses disappeared from the high street last year
‘Ghost town UK’: 5,000 businesses disappeared from the high street last year
'Once-thriving businesses have gone to the wall' because of 'sky-high energy bills, borrowing costs and staff shortages', say Lib Dems
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My pie in the sky dream would be for councils to buy high street shops, land and all, and rent them back with rent caps to small business owners. No more sky high business rates to worry about. Encourage small and medium size businesses to set up and grow their business up to a certain amount of turnover a year. Maybe that might reverse the trend in businesses abandoning the high street because there's no customers and customers abandoning the high street because the prices are sky high?
But who am I fooling? I live in Bristol and what we need is the council to fund building of a mega arena not even inside Bristol 🤷.
Councils are going bankrupt because they can't even run their own business. Letting them be landlords also is a recipe for disaster.
I did say it was a pie in the sky dream 😂