I am in the process of submitting a statement to - well, I think it is 'members forum' to - support a request from the Bedminster Town Team and GBCP for 'Make Sundays Special' to travel around the city.
Statement re ‘Make Sundays Special’
I attended a meeting of the Bedminster Town Team board a few weeks ago.
At that meeting, a trader pointed out that he
closed up on the one Sunday a month when ‘Make Sunday Special’ was on in
town, because he did not get enough trade to justify remaining open.
At the Town Team meeting, he made a suggestion that
a request be made to move ‘Make Sunday Special’ around the city, with a
view to holding events in Bedminster.
Subsequently, the Greater Bedminster Community Partnership adopted a motion supporting the proposal.
We welcome the
recent celebratory Sunday events in Bristol City Centre, but are
concerned that they may be damaging trading activity in the Bedminster
high streets by drawing large numbers of people away
from BS3. Several traders have reported a decline coinciding with
city-centre events. We therefore think that the celebrations should be
more evenly spread across the city, with several events per year being
held in out-of-centre areas such as Bedminster.
As one of the ward councillors, I would also like
to place on record my support for such an idea, to ask officers to
investigate it, and to let us know the outcome.
Charlie Bolton
Councillor
Southville ward
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