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Apply for Your High Street to Be One of Twelve Portas Pilots
ACS has backed Government plans to fund twelve pilot schemes to re-invigorate towns. The fund comes on the back of the well-received Portas review into High Streets and aims to support local businesses and councils to implement the findings of that review.
ACS Chief Executive James Lowman said: “This is a great opportunity for local shops to reach out to other businesses, councils and local people to change the places where they trade. It doesn’t just relate to big city centres – small towns and urban parades…
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Blog Post: Rates at the Top of our Budget Wish List
Every special interest group has its budget wish list, and perhaps our call for business rates increases to be capped at 2% will be viewed in this context. What we're explaining to the Chancellor, and what many of our members are telling their MPs, is that setting business rates according to the inflation target, rather than according to last September's spike in RPI, will help deliver jobs an growth for the economy.
Here's why. We know that when our members are hit with increased costs, they don't just pass it on through…
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