The bad news just keeps coming 🤦🏻♂️Calls for action as new Moffat report finds significant decline in Glasgow City Centre..some of the key points
Output down from £2.88bn to £1.88bn (a staggering drop of £1,000,000,0000 in 10 years)
GDP down 15%
A drop of 30% in use of public transport
A drop of 18% in visits to restaurants, retail and shopping centres
A drop of 20.5% in visits to bars and pubs
( DOUBLE that of Englands)
Similar drop in Employment
A contraction of 21% in the City of Musics live music scene
The scale of the decline is quite staggering and that real meaningful, radical action must be urgently taken, starting with a lifting of the current travel restrictions and road works, if the city is to ever bounce back and visitors are to return.
@GabyMcKay @wearethentia @Glasgow_Chamber @UtUCabGlasgow @SLTAssociation@scothospgroup@UKHofficial@st_alliance@RedmondLabour@pauline4glasgow@AnasSarwar@GlasgowCC@scotgov
https://t.co/ejmvuh1v9a
Gino D'Acampo calls on Govt to 'act now' and do ‘something drastic’ to support the hospitality industry, which he says is 'falling down like a pack of cards'. He says rising costs are crippling independent cafes and restaurants https://t.co/O8l6VJQUJK
Why won’t the SNP do more to save Scotland’s pubs? Op-ed from me on business rates and the different support north and south of the border. https://t.co/D0OWNE5d8T
I suggest @Jeremy_Hunt & @RishiSunak watch my interview on how the pub trade & Hospitality is being treated.
Government do not understand the perilous position of this industry. It’s almost too late to save it.
@GBNEWS@toryboypierce@beverleyturner 📺 📻
@Sacha_Lord@Jeremy_Hunt Small comfort I know , but at least in England you’ve already experienced benefits of a rates relief package, saving many, not so in Scotland ! The anti biz @scotgov decided not to introduce one, consigning many previously successful hospitality businesses to the gutter 🤦🏻