RENEWAL PROPOSAL 2017-2022 Angel.London Has Served Businesses at the Angel for Nine Years, and We Have Transformed the Area BUSINESS AS USUAL
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RENEWAL PROPOSAL 2017-2022 angel.london has served businesses at the Angel for nine years, and we have transformed the area BUSINESS AS USUAL In October 2016 businesses at the Angel will be invited to vote to renew the angel. london Business Improvement District Here you will find our five-year plan to continue developing the Angel as a great place to do business Find out why fellow businesses value the work of angel.london And understand the case for voting YES Introduction 3 Safer 12 Our Board 22 The Past and the Present 4 Cleaner 14 Management Team 22 Today’s Business Improvement District 6 Brighter 16 Regulations 23 Tomorrow’s Business Improvement District 8 Measuring – How well are we doing? 18 The Ballot 23 Snapshots of our success 10 Budget 20 Contact 24 2 Business Improvement Districts like the Angel are always subject to the rapidly changing landscape affecting the whole CHANGING of our city which is why it’s crucial for businesses to work together and respond to both national and local challenges. TIMES CREATE BIDs are playing a crucial - and proven role - in promoting destinations and supporting business growth. We must strive to OPPORTUNITIES keep the Angel’s unique character, while further developing our infrastructure, which has brought millions of pounds in inward Introduction from angel.london CEO Christine Lovett investment to the area over the past ten years. The growth of internet shopping and out of town retail centres has changed consumer patterns. To preserve the vibrancy of our high street “Nearly five years has passed since we last we need to expand what we already have to create more of an asked you to vote for us. When we began experience, while ensuring those people that live and work at our second term in April 2012, many town the Angel have an offer which keeps them here. centres in the UK were already in decline and At Angel we also understand the need for a strong sense of community, and the interconnectivity of businesses and local the ‘disappearance of the British High Street’ residents. We are proud of our role in bringing the two together. was the topic of many conversations. Here I regularly attend meetings of local residents and community at Angel we have come through this period groups, which has given me an overview of the area and the knowledge of where and how the businesses and residential remarkably unscathed – there have been communities overlap. I am ideally placed to make sure the some changes in the demographics but smaller things are dealt with, and larger projects are managed, occupancy rates remain high. with the best interests of everyone in mind, providing job opportunities, community benefits, sustainability and above all, a great environment in which to do business. The team and I have been here since the inception of the BID. My office door is always open. By working together we can keep the Angel the unique and exciting place that it has become.” angel.london renewal proposal 2017-2022 proposal renewal angel.london 3 angel.london was established in We’ve cleaned up the Angel’s act and are still working according to those priorities today. THE PAST AND 2007. It developed organically out The simple cleaner, safer, brighter agenda of a hugely successful town continues to be relevant, and more and bigger THE PRESENT centre management group, which businesses are attracted here because the Angel impresses customers, and they tell us their staff grew after three local businessmen love it. set about making the Angel a better We currently represent 420 businesses across 43 place to be. Jack Morris whose streets from all sectors. We are considered experts family own the Business Design on the Angel and are pushing forward with passion and drive the revised ten-year town centre strategy Centre, Lou Segal owner of 45-year- we’ve developed with Islington Council and local old Frederick’s restaurant, and businesses to secure the area’s sustainability. Our town centre vision has already delivered an local conservation architect David interesting mix of quirky and global shops and Gibson all knew how the Angel restaurants and we have been praised for managing needed improving. And after Jack our thriving late-night economy well. had returned from a trip to America There have been visitors from developing BIDs having witnessed how one of the in America and Europe looking at how we are taking things forward, and we’ve advised other BIDs world’s first BIDs had regenerated including Cape Town on managing a dedicated Times Square, they understood how police team. We are strategic consultees for any developments affecting Angel and guarantee to make it happen. to always prioritise the interests of business. So a YES vote is a vote for the future of your business, for the future of the Angel. angel.london renewal proposal 2017-2022 proposal renewal angel.london 4 “It is a measure of Says the brilliant angel. David london team that Gibson, they’ve kept sight board of our vision for the member, Angel and are still founder prioritising what of David we thought was A YES VOTE IS A VOTE important ten years Gibson Architects ago, yet have also FOR THE FUTURE OF developed the BID and into so much more, Chairman offering more and of The YOUR BUSINESS, FOR better services Islington for businesses year Society THE FUTURE OF THE on year.” ANGEL angel.london renewal proposal 2017-2022 proposal renewal angel.london 5 All funding generated through angel.london is ring- fenced for the BID area. We don’t make a profit. We TODAY’S are run by a board drawn from local businesses who give their time voluntarily. We re-invest every BUSINESS penny of your levy in the area. Even our offices and business costs are free, provided by Frederick’s IMPROVEMENT restaurant. From the outset we have been determined to DISTRICT deliver excellent value for your money. Not only have we directly put pounds back in your pocket Our second term of the BID with our recycling services, but we’ve delivered economic benefits too, such as increased was renewed in 2011 with an footfall and greater staff retention. “We love angel.london. We love overwhelming 81% YES vote. We Why are you voting yes? the free recycling which easily are now seeking your mandate for a saves us more than the amount We have delivered what we promised, and in third term 2017-2022. our next BID term we shall continue all of those of BID levy we pay a year. And services and add more – for the same money. We that means we get the angel. BIDs are business-led organisations funded by a will continue to run our nine-officer angel.london statutory levy on occupiers, in addition to their Police Team, offer a friendly, efficient and free london Police Team, clean business rates. They are established following a streets, Christmas lights, advice recycling service, brighten up the Angel with vote of eligible businesses within a defined area Christmas lights and summer flowers, give advice and all the other services they and governed by local government legislation. They on planning and licensing issues, advocate for your offer for free.” must go back to their members for a new mandate business, and drive forward our vision to keep the every five years. BIDs give businesses a sense of high street bustling and vibrant. Read on to find out Says Sergei Pascoal, ownership of the area and raise extra funding to what your YES vote will secure for your business. manager of Chilango deliver services which benefit them, and the wider community. 6 “Ticketmaster Says moved its Ticketmaster international UK’s PR headquarters to manager Angel three years Katie White ago. This enabled us to move closer to the heart of Tech WE REINVEST EVERY City and Silicon Roundabout while PENNY OF YOUR LEVY giving our employees a fantastic environment to work IN THE AREA in. We work closely with local businesses to give our people access to the very best places to eat, shop and enjoy in the area – something they love.” angel.london renewal proposal 2017-2022 proposal renewal angel.london 7 “I am extremely proud to be involved in the angel.london collaboration. Through the visible presence of police officers, and the proactive engagement with the business, resident and visitor At the request of businesses just outside the area, communities to the iconic Angel TOMORROW’S we are proposing to extend our boundaries (see area, there has been a palpable map) to bring benefits to more people, and increase in the confidence and increase our audience. At least 20 businesses BUSINESS along Upper Street, Essex and Pentonville Roads trust in the police, and greater have already joined as voluntary members, paying enjoyment of the location. Over IMPROVEMENT the BID levy. the past five years there has been a marked decrease in DISTRICT Your YES vote for angel.london theft offences, coupled with an Our business proposals have been developed in improved detection rate. There The BID currently runs along consultation with existing businesses and key has also been an increase in stakeholders at the Angel. In order for the BID to Upper Street and St John’s Streets be renewed, we must achieve a majority of YES intelligence-sharing and crime from the Almeida in the north, to votes by number of businesses, and also by the prevention initiatives between Sadler’s Wells in the south, taking total value of property they represent. That ensures the business community and the in Pentonville Road, Chapel Market, we are offering something for everyone.