Taunton has an interesting BID history:
2007 - BID established after a YES ballot result, with a 5 year term ending in 2012.
2012 - BID renewal ballot resulted in a NO, so BID kicked out.
2014 - BID development ballot resulted in a NO again (with a worse result than in 2012).
2020 - Some bright sparks decide to bring BID back to ballot again, and the ballot was ‘suspended’ 2 hours before ballot closure for no good verifiable reason, so NO BID yet again! Interesting that when one of the BID proposer steering group members was asked what happened to the BID he replied “we knew it wasn’t going our way”.
The following is a series of articles are from the hard fought NO campaign for the 2020 ballot, which basically beat the Council and BID proposers into submission. You can see how the campaign developed and many strong evidence based NO arguments were put across, so please read with interest and feel free to copy / use any article tailored for your own NO BID campaign.
The following images are from the 8 page vote NO campaign booklet produced for the ballot. Download a copy here.
Sloppy research? There appear many mistakes where number of voting properties and cumulative RV figures are concerned. This is important because it’s a matter of trust, in addition to the feasibility study providing the fundamental basis for the current proposal and business plan being developed by Taunton BID during the consultation phase.
Read MoreIs this incompetent research by the BID Consultants or an attempt to hide the true number of council properties with votes? Either way our research shows fundamental flaws to the assumptions in the BID proposal, and can we trust everything Taunton BID are saying?
Read MoreYet more research mistakes? The Bridge Street voting property count and cumulative RV, are in reality both much lower than they are stated in the feasibility study. This is important because it’s a matter of trust, in addition to the study providing the fundamental basis for the current proposal and business plan being developed during the consultation phase.
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