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Town Centre Managers
Town Centre Manager
Activities
Examples of the work streams that a Town
Centre Manager works across.
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Partnerships
the setting up, facilitation, and running of two Town Centre
Forums, as well as the setting up of other appropriate partnerships
as necessary.
- Shared Vision
- helping to develop a shared vision and strategies for the
town centres, specifically the Forest Gate Town Centre
Strategy.
- Central point of contact -
acting as a central point of contract for information and 'advice'
from a range of interests, including council departments, local
residents and businesses, external companies, students
etc.
- Business Support - providing
advice and support to local businesses. This includes providing
basic assistance to businesses, signposting of businesses to
relevant advisory agencies and/or developing specific projects to
meet specific needs.
- Promotion and marketing -
Undertaking a range of marketing and promotional initiatives to
encourage increased usage of the town centres from organising
events to press liaison to producing town centre
guides.
- Helping to improve service delivery
- Working with the borough to help to improve services in the
town centre. This includes involvement in Best Value Reviews and
other working groups, helping to pilot new initiatives, such as a
dedicated Forest Gate Planner.
- Improving the public realm -
taking the lead in coordinating environmental works, as well as
working to try to ensure that the highest standards are
maintained.
- Enhancing security - working to
help to improve security in the town centre. This includes capital
projects such as the installation of new pedestrian lighting
schemes and CCTV, to working with partners such as the Metropolitan
Police, in helping to address specific problems such as street sex
workers, shoplifting etc.
- Improving Access - working with
our partners to improve access to, and from, and around the town
centres.
- Encouraging Investment -
actively assisting businesses in seeking premises, advising
about premises, showing potential investors around
etc.
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