Butter's cafe is a family run business, we sold everything we owned to open in Andover and try something different, we fought the council who eventually allowed us to open in Andover, then we realise we have no bin space so we went back to the council who couldn't find us anywhere and did nothing basically, we were taking our rubbish home every evening to an industrial bin at our home address, eventually local pub landlords let us have an area to put a bin, which we are so grateful.

Then we have the front dug up for almost a year,  plans to change the road we new nothing about this and cost us a great deal of trade with noise and dust.

Then the chantry centre needed a new front the scaffolding went up and blocked us out of view good idea :)

Now we have 3 complaints since the flats opposite sold, two are being rented our as holiday flats not even for local people to live in, another is the owners mother and apparently they never sold are still owned by local business owner, why has Andover council allowed holiday lets on the high street and why are their windows not double glazed, no they have come to us, made us put door closes on and air con fitted costing thousands, and will increase our rates, they have now suggested we have the cafe window double glazed and maybe cut our music down, this would mean we close as we cant afford the bills. good one andover council and they say they are not coming at us.

Since opening our music events have helped charities ~ got local performers heard either at our mic night or evening performing ~ brought the voice auditions to Andover so local people could be heard. cheers Andover TVBC for your support, If the council supported local businesses maybe we wouldn't have so many empty shops in Andover, please support us and make a change, we dont want to close but we cant afford to keep making changes to the premises every time the council has an idea HELP HELP HELP