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Helping Shape the District
3 - Town Centres
Representation ID: 46162
Received: 31/03/2011
Respondent: Barclays Bank PLC
Agent: Shireconsulting
Highlights the importance of A2 financial services to the vitality and viability of the town centres in terms of high attraction of footfall. The provision of financial services should be allowed to improve and evolve alongside improvements to shopping provision and not subject to restrictive controls. There is a need to review existing policies such as TCP4 and TCP5 which restrict A2 uses in designated frontages or the Council will risk the DPD being unsound. The focus should be on the quality of the occupier not maintaining an arbituary level of a particular use class. Banks regularly experience high levels of customer visits, the level of footfall being commensurate with and often higher than, the best known national multiple Class A1 traders and banks are increasingly retail in their appearance.
Highlights the importance of A2 financial services to the vitality and viability of the town centres in terms of high attraction of footfall. The provision of financial services should be allowed to improve and evolve alongside improvements to shopping provision and not subject to restrictive controls. There is a need to review existing policies such as TCP4 and TCP5 which restrict A2 uses in designated frontages or the Council will risk the DPD being unsound. The focus should be on the quality of the occupier not maintaining an arbituary level of a particular use class. Banks regularly experience high levels of customer visits, the level of footfall being commensurate with and often higher than, the best known national multiple Class A1 traders and banks are increasingly retail in their appearance.
