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Enhancing Sutton
During our next five year term, we pledge to promote Sutton as a destination for visitors, residents and investors, ensuring a positive lasting impression which encourages them to return.
Vote our Yes four to ensure we can key co mmit ments deliver to
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• Continue to develop and deliver a robust events and marketing programme which includes large scale events such as the Christmas
Light Switch On and Easter Farm plus targeted campaigns to promote independent retailers and markets.
• Continue to operate the award-winning Shopper Shuttle.
• Maintain the town centre Enjoy Sutton website and social media channels to create engagement opportunities for BID businesses, which continues to generate 13,000 visitors a month.
• Deliver a quality markets programme that continues to attract existing and new visitors to Sutton town centre as well as ensuring the local residents and workers are also catered for. This includes the existing monthly Farmers’ & Artisan Market, annual Christmas Market and visiting markets. New markets such as street food and late night markets will also be launched.
Votin g yes also means we can
• Continue to work closely with car park operators to keep parking tariffs low and competitive.
• Encourage, support and promote late night shopping.
• Continue to provide footfall data as a benchmark for our town centre’s competitiveness.
• Support our town centre loyalty card.
• Add new events across the town centre.
The Enjoy Sutton Loyalty Scheme has provided Sutton Music with an easy and valuable way of staying in touch with our customers. The simplicity of customer registration has made it very popular and gives us a positive reason to engage and introduce our other services.
Mark Allis – Director, Sutton Music Centre
CONSULTATION results 80%
of businesses want us to continue to prioritise events and activities to increase footfall.
73%
of responders to our renewal consultation said promoting Sutton through advertising, marketing and social media was their highest priority.
71%
of businesses want the Shopper Shuttle to keep operating.
64%
of businesses like our monthly markets.
