The first-ever pub-led Business Improvement District (BID), planned for Nottingham, is being promoted by Jonathan Webster, who oversees Greene Kings foodier managed pubs, writes Paul Charity.
Around 300 pubs and licensed businesses in the centre of Nottingham are to receive voting papers on the coming weeks to decide if they want to be part of a BID that would oversee an investment of £2m in improving the quality of the city centre.
The postal ballot will conclude on 26 October.
BIDs have proved successful in many parts of the country and in Birmingham the Broad Street BID has produced spectacular results in terms of reductions in alcohol-related violence and incidents.
Webster, who was previously chief executive of Hardys & Hansons, is jointly chairing the BID steering group with Chris Bulaitis, managing director of Ever So Sensible Bars, which runs the Dogma bar in the city.
Bulaitis said: “The best people to know what the businesses need are the businesses themselves.”
