Save Meriden Businesses, Help the Local Community, Help Them Reopen Without Delay
Save Meriden Businesses, Help the Local Community, Help Them Reopen Without Delay
The Issue
Save Meriden Businesses and help the local community
The regeneration project in The Meriden, Garston was approved by Watford Borough Council in October 2015 despite protests by all local Residents. Watford Local Government and Watford Community Housing informed all these businesses at the time of their compulsory purchase order that all shops would be able to move into their new premises at the same time as closing their old ones, just as the Co-Op will be doing.
These Small Businesses serving the Local Community in The Meriden Parade, have now shut their doors on 30th April 2021. They have served the community for several decades and have been advised that it will be several months before the newly built shops will be ready for them to occupy and reopen and this comes directly after several months lockdown where most were shut.
These businesses do not have the financial capability to absorb more huge losses after those incurred during lockdown and the majority now face the threat of being permanently closed.
Permanent closure will not only affect the owners of these shops, their employees, and the local economy, but it will also adversely impact the local community who have relied on their services for decades.
The local community, especially the elderly, now do not have the services of these business they relied on. These businesses have been informed reopening could take months.
Please also see this emotional video of the business owners describing their plight prior to shut down: https://youtu.be/lYeDIF9WErs
Link to My Local News on the Meriden Shops Shutting Down: https://www.mynewsmag.co.uk/closing-doors-petition-launched-to-help-save-small-businesses-on-the-meriden-in-garston/
False Promises? Link: https://www.facebook.com/prashanthwatford/posts/235637434901921
Please sign this petition:
We call on the Watford Borough Council, the Watford Mayor and Watford Community Housing Trust to work with these affected businesses and help them reopen as soon as possible so that, so the local community does not go without their services for long.
THE MERIDEN LOCAL BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY NEED YOUR SUPPORT.
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The Issue
Save Meriden Businesses and help the local community
The regeneration project in The Meriden, Garston was approved by Watford Borough Council in October 2015 despite protests by all local Residents. Watford Local Government and Watford Community Housing informed all these businesses at the time of their compulsory purchase order that all shops would be able to move into their new premises at the same time as closing their old ones, just as the Co-Op will be doing.
These Small Businesses serving the Local Community in The Meriden Parade, have now shut their doors on 30th April 2021. They have served the community for several decades and have been advised that it will be several months before the newly built shops will be ready for them to occupy and reopen and this comes directly after several months lockdown where most were shut.
These businesses do not have the financial capability to absorb more huge losses after those incurred during lockdown and the majority now face the threat of being permanently closed.
Permanent closure will not only affect the owners of these shops, their employees, and the local economy, but it will also adversely impact the local community who have relied on their services for decades.
The local community, especially the elderly, now do not have the services of these business they relied on. These businesses have been informed reopening could take months.
Please also see this emotional video of the business owners describing their plight prior to shut down: https://youtu.be/lYeDIF9WErs
Link to My Local News on the Meriden Shops Shutting Down: https://www.mynewsmag.co.uk/closing-doors-petition-launched-to-help-save-small-businesses-on-the-meriden-in-garston/
False Promises? Link: https://www.facebook.com/prashanthwatford/posts/235637434901921
Please sign this petition:
We call on the Watford Borough Council, the Watford Mayor and Watford Community Housing Trust to work with these affected businesses and help them reopen as soon as possible so that, so the local community does not go without their services for long.
THE MERIDEN LOCAL BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY NEED YOUR SUPPORT.
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Petition created on 25 April 2021