BID
A proposal for a Business Improvement District for
The proposal for a BID has come about after a range of consultation exercises with companies across the Business Park have identified some specific areas where a BID will be able to support companies grow and prosper.
The development work for the BID has been funded and supported by a range of project partners, including Osborne House, Barclays, Roberts Bakery, Cheshire West and Chester Council and Groundwork Cheshire.
The BID will deliver a range of services and projects that will seek to enhance
1. Safer and More Secure Business Park- Increasing business security and preventing crime,
2. Greener and
3. Co-ordinated and Supported Business Community - To ensure a co-ordinated business park through the provision of a range of support functions that will benefit all businesses,
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The benefits from the BID, for resident companies will be:
ž Lower levels of crime, improved safety, less congested business park with improved public transport links – Increased levels of security, improved bus services, car sharing web site facility.
ž Enhanced image for
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ž Business Led Partnership – Working with you, for you.
ž Connected Business Community – Networking, business park newsletter, business watch, on-line business directory, business park web site.
ž Business Support – Greater access to a range of business support services provided by local, regional and national organisations to support you company to grow and prosper. The Business Park Manager will have a key role in signposting your business to these services to ensure you know about these and benefit.
ž Investment Support – Lobbying, promoting and developing the
The Business Improvement District will deliver its services for a five-year period from the 1st November 2009 until 31st October 2014.
The vote for the BID will close on the 30th September 2009. Voting papers will be sent out on the 26th August from Electoral Reform Services, on behalf of Cheshire West and Chester Council.
To find out more about BIDs, visit Groundwork Cheshire’s web site by clicking here (
To discuss any specific details of the proposed BID for Gadbrook Park, and to arrange a meeting to find out how your company will benefit from the planned BID contact Mike Kelly at Groundwork using the details below:
Groundwork
Yarwoods Arm,
Navigation Road,
Northwich,
CW8 1BE
Tel: 01606 723175
Email: mike.kelly@groundwork.org.uk
For more information and examples of UK Business Improvement Districts, you can visit the following web sites:
Winsford Industrial Estate BID
APRIL '07
John Fifield at Osborne House held the first BID meeting to six interested businesses in April 2007. This meeting was a huge success allowing for a second meeting that was held on Wednesday 11 th July 2007 to discuss a draft budget and the way forward enlisting the help of Groundwork (Government Organisation). Groundwork had previously worked on the Winsford 1-5 BID which has proved a great success.
FEBRUARY '08
Groundwork’s carried out a consultation period in February 2008, in which each business on
JUNE '08
A further meeting was held on Tuesday 24th June to highlight the results collected from the BID questionnaire that was sent to all occupiers of
SEPTEMBER '08
Following the consultation document going out to all occupiers on
OCTOBER '08
The BID launch meeting invitation was sent to all businesses on
NOVEMBER '08
Following a well attended meeting on Thursday 6th November at The Pastry Case, Gadbrook Park (including Councillor Mike Jones, the leader of the new Cheshire West and Chester Council) Groundwork are well advanced with the BID proposal and it is likely to be put to the vote in April/May 2009. If it is passed, it will be implemented in July 2009.