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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
Vauxhall Park

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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New Vauxhall Society walks announced

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Make sure you note them in your diary APRIL Tuesday 3 April 2012, 2.30pm All About Vauxhall Gardens (1 ½ hours) Meet at Starbucks,...

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