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WHITCHURCH ASSOCIATION Town Action Plan Team
Whitchurch Town Centre Revitalisation Project
Kick off Meeting
Stewart Parrington/Tony CorbinPress
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| Slide 2 - Suggested
Agenda |
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| Suggested Agenda |
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Context
Substance
Aims
Initial ideas
Christmas 2005?
Next Steps |
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| Slide 3 - Context |
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| Context |
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Healthcheck respondents: |
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Town centre described as ‘drab’ (42.2%)
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from Town’s ‘image’
– 61.4%
shopped in Whitchurch for ‘last minute items’
– 81.3%
shopped out of Whitchurch (more choice)
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More Competition
•Empty units/closures
•The Internet
•Changing work/social patterns
•Declining event attendance levels
•Recent ‘informal’ dialogue
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| Slide 4 -Town Centre Revitalisation |
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Substance:
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•Potentially long term (with your
pro-active support here to stay
not gone tomorrow!)
•Local Authority and LSP supported
(in kind and potentially via grant aid…££££ e.g. CTI and POPPi)
•Focused upon business and
community needs (e.g. responses via the Healthcheck)
•Locally driven (Community
Groups/Local Business)
•Supported and facilitated by WA
Town Action Plan Team
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| Slide 5 -Town Centre Revitalisation |
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•Improve visual appearance
•Bring ‘pride and vitality’ to the
town
•Increase town centre ‘footfall’
•Business in the Community (more
business/community group collaboration)
•Encourage loyalty (shopping
locally for local produce from local shops is also kind
to the environment!)
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| Slide 6 -Town Centre Revitalisation
Project |
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Initial Ideas – What do you think?
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•‘Spend a Day in Whitchurch’
Tourism initiative (incl new local Heritage Centre)
•Built environment improvements
(partly grant aid enabled)
•Publicity (education) – support
your local shops..use or lose! (inc via
Whitchurch Web)
•Traders Association (collaboration
on events, issues, staffing, window displays, skills
etc)
•Events – inc. Food & Drink
festival, Street Market, Community Groups,
Christmas initiatives
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| Slide 7 -Town Centre Revitalisation
Project |
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Focus on Christmas
Initiatives (Commencing 2005)
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–The ‘Whitchurch Christmas
experience’
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»Wide promotion under ‘one banner’ of existing
community and Town Centre events?
»Themed day or late night shopping event?
»Help with Window Displays (prize for winner)?
»Children’s ‘shop window competition’?
»What else?? Name??
A modest beginning ....
bigger and better in 2006 |
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| Slide 8 - Next
Steps |
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1.Can
we achieve a festive spirit and make Christmas
2005 in Whitchurch a very special experience for
young and old?
2.Are you
enthused by the overall initiative?
3.What next –
working group? (who/when/how)
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