Council minutes often make interesting reading.
Fascinating to consider how much B&NES benefits from its property ‘assets’ – which apparently total 1200 in number.
It’s commercial estate generates 15 million pounds a year and you may like to know the Council owns 60% of the commercial and retail property at the core centre of Bath.
Visitors want to see different shops, and it is in BaNES’ hands to set its business rents to allow high quality independent shops to flourish. Instead, we see a high turnover of such shops, while those awful shops selling the same selection of cheap bags, and the large nondescript chains proliferate!