Business

Join Vauxhall One’s business theme groups

22 September 2012
Join Vauxhall One’s business theme groups

Vauxhall One, the new Business Improvement District for the riverside district, is inviting representatives of any business within the BID area to join one of the four Vauxhall One committees and so help improve the district for everybody. The four committees or ‘theme groups’ are Vauxhall Safe (safer streets) Vauxhall Change (physical regeneration) Vauxhall Day & Night (‘selling’ the area) Vauxhall Together (community engagement & environmental performance). The Vauxhall Society is represented on all four ‘themes’ and on the...

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One into Vauxhall will go: business ballot backs Business Improvement District

1 March 2012
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Vauxhall businesspeople have voted with their wallets to establish a Business Improvement District, Vauxhall One, to ginger up business services and environmental standards. Green spaces in the BID area include Vauxhall Park and Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The to-be-or-not-to-be ballot of businesses with a rateable value of over £20,000 returned a strong ‘Yes’ from those voting – with 83% in favour by number and 91% by rateable value. The post-ballot Vauxhall One held its first management committee meeting on Monday...

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A Business Improvement District for Vauxhall? Ballot closes on 23 February

21 February 2012

If you’re the owner or manager of one of the couple of hundred Vauxhall businesses occupying premises with a rateable value of more than £20,000 then remember that Thursday 23 February is the closing day for your vote in the ballot for against a Business Improvement District (‘Vauxhall One’). Vauxhall One would be empowered to raise a levy, collected by Lambeth, of 1.5% of rateable value over £20,000 to spend in the BID area on commissioning new or improved...

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Business Improvement District: Vauxhall Park back on the map with Vauxhall One

12 February 2012

The Management Committee of Vauxhall One, Vauxhall’s Business Improvement District vehicle, has confirmed that Vauxhall Park does, has and will lie within the BID’s boundaries, and so will feature on all future BID maps. If, that is, there’s a simple majority ‘Yes’ vote to a BID in the ballot of Vauxhall businesses that closes on 23 February. If so, on 1 April ‘Vauxhall One’ becomes a Business Improvement District, empowered to raise a levy of 1.5% of rateable value...

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Vauxhall One to give Vauxhall its Park back

16 January 2012
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At the urging of The Vauxhall Society, Vauxhall Park is back on the map. By the end of 2011, the park had disappeared from maps and text published by Vauxhall One, the consortium of local businesses behind February’s referendum over whether or not the Vauxhall Cross area should have a Business Improvement District (BID). Now, however, after an approach from The Vauxhall Society, Vauxhall One Chairman Richard Tice, confirms that Vauxhall Park is back in the BID area and...

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Are the police worth local business’s coppers?

20 January 2011

Do local businesses think they’re getting their money’s worth from Lambeth police? If you’re running a business in Lambeth we’d like to hear your views at vauxhallcs@gmail.com. We also invite the police to comment on complaints that they’re too politically-correct to crack down on a particular gang of shoplifters. DIY ‘justice’? One long-established Lambeth DIY retailer complained to a Vauxhall Society member that the police try to entrap him by sending kids into his shop asking to buy knives....

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