What will it deliver?
Paignton BID will be able to provide a number of the additional services that you, as business people, have identified as being
important to the viability of your business by fundamentally improving the trading environment of Paignton town centre.
The BID aims and objectives:
- Provide Paignton business people with a strong democratic voice and influence.
- Improve the shopper/visitor experience.
- Raise Paignton’s profile.
- Broaden and increase Paignton’s customer base.
- Attract more tourists to the town centre.
- Increase footfall.
- Increase spend per head.
- Encourage inward investment and reduce vacancy rates.
- Improve the presentation and management of the streets.
- Ensure better marketing, publicity and events to attract new customers and retain existing.
- Provide opportunities for collective purchasing of services, utilities and investment.
The BID will also help to:
- Raise the profile of Torbay as a resort.
- Co-ordinate activities for maximum benefit and value.
- Give the public sector a better understanding of business needs.
- Change public perceptions of the town.
- Influence future regeneration and development projects in Paignton.
- Create a safer and cleaner environment.
- Reduce businesses’ vulnerability to crime.
- Improve co-ordination of events and activities across the Bay to increase visitor numbers and retain more visitor spend in the area.
- Increase prosperity for businesses.