{"id":208,"date":"2013-09-11T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=208"},"modified":"2013-09-11T15:38:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T14:38:40","slug":"more-independents-choosing-gloucester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"More independents choosing Gloucester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The picture on Gloucester\u2019s \u2018High Streets\u2019 is getting brighter \u2013 with the number of empty units in the city centre steadily decreasing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Since May empty units have fallen from 48 to 38 and the City Council\u2019s policy of providing advice and cash help has played a big part.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Its award-winning \u2018Gloucester Supports Business\u2019 scheme, has helped 46 businesses- providing 140 jobs. This includes 17 start-up businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The scheme provides help with rents, business rates or structural alterations for businesses moving, relocating or starting up in the city centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Council Leader Paul James, commented: \u201c We operate a dual approach to the regeneration and economy of the City. In the past several years a total of \u00a3700 million has been invested or committed to major projects across Gloucester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201c At the same time we have worked very hard to support small and medium sized businesses with practical financial help and advice.\u00a0 It is critical that we support both ends of the spectrum in this way to ensure a balanced and viable economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201c Developers and investors are showing faith in our approach and the Government has cited us as an example of best practice and backed that up with additional funding to support the work we are doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u201cThere are currently more than 100 independent traders operating in the City Centre. That\u2019s fantastic and we want to continue to see that increase in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture on Gloucester\u2019s \u2018High Streets\u2019 is getting brighter \u2013 with the number of empty units in the city centre steadily decreasing. Since May empty units have fallen from 48 to 38 and the City Council\u2019s policy of providing advice and cash help has played a big part. Its award-winning \u2018Gloucester Supports Business\u2019 scheme, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}