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Our local high streets are changing.

With the rise of shopping online, more and more people are choosing to shop from home. To preserve and protect our high streets, the heart of our towns will become focused on leisure, with bars, cafes, and other similar small & medium sized businesses.  

By supporting the evolving nature of our high streets, we can help to protect the backbone of our local economy, nurture local job growth, and ensure the beating heart of our communities continues to thrive.

As someone who worked in retail for 18 years, I know how important it is to protect our shops and local towns. 

My high street campaign aims to support our high streets and local businesses, whilst ensuring our towns are prepared for the future. 

The towns of the future will need to be welcoming, safe, clean, and pleasant places for residents to walk, sit, eat, drink, and enjoy free time with family and friends in. To prepare our high street for this vision of the future, TotF has five key priorities: 

Our Five Priorities:

1) Cut business rates to help ease the pressure on existing businesses and make it easier for new businesses to open.

2) Keep the streets tidy and a nice place to be to ensure a welcoming environment.

3) Introduce attractive features to the high street, such as trees and flowers, to keep the area green and a pleasant space.

4) Free parking should be protected or introduced to improve accessibility.

5) Help keep streets safe with increased police visibility.

 

How to Help:

Sign my petition below to lower business rates

Lowering business rates will help alleviate the pressures that are faced by businesses on our high streets. With lower rates, shops could afford to expand into new products, employ more staff, and invest in skills and training for local people. 

 

Towns of the future

  • 1 Current Lower Business Rates
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News

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Andrea Cleans up Our Streets

Friday, 26 April, 2019

This afternoon I joined with Morley Victoria Primary School pupils & local volunteers for a litter pick in Morley.

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Andrea Visits 'Good Stuff' in Morley

Thursday, 18 April, 2019

Really great to meet Ruth today and visit Morley's newest local business 'GoodStuff.1'.

Fantastic to see even more small businesses springing up in our high street, especially ones that sell such amazing cakes!

MM

Morley Market

Thursday, 28 March, 2019

Morley Market has been a feature since the town was formed. The market building has a large trading hall split up into units housing, butchers, fashion shops and a cafe 

TOTF

Andrea asks about Lowering Business Rates

Wednesday, 27 March, 2019

One of the top five priorities I have outlined as part of my Towns of the Future campaign is to lower business rates to relieve some of the pressure for existing shops and businesses on our high streets.

You can read more about this campaign here: Click to find out more. 

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High Street Saturday

Saturday, 16 March, 2019

I'm proud to have recently launched my High Street campaign, Towns of the Future. Find out more about this important campaign to support our local businesses whilst preparing the high street for the future, click here: Towns of the Future 

DEKLH

Morley Ob: MP's Campaign to Save British High Streets

Thursday, 14 March, 2019

Great to see my Towns of the Future campaign discussed in the Morley Observer today!

Nick Hurd

Andrea Raises Concerns to Minister for Policing

Monday, 4 March, 2019

I just met with the Minister for Policing, Nick Hurd MP to discuss the need for more police in our streets and stronger sentences for violent crimes.

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Minister for Local Growth supports Andrea's Towns of the Future campaign

Monday, 4 March, 2019

As an ex-retailer with 18 years experience in retail management, Andrea cares deeply about the future of our local high streets.

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Andrea Jenkyns MP calls for lower business rates for our local pubs

Tuesday, 15 January, 2019

Andrea has been a long time advocate calling for lower beer duties to protect our country's pubs,

She would like to see lower business rates for pubs in Morley and Outwood to help the thrive.

- This petition collects personal data such as name and address, this data will be taken from this webpage and placed into, alongside other paper copies of the same petition, a final list for submission to the relevant authority. Your data will not be used for any other purpose. 

Andrea Jenkyns MP for Morley and Outwood

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