By Hugh Coakley Shoppers flocked back to the High Street today, 97 days after Lockdown 3 started on January 5, 2021 and more than a year since the pandemic struck,…
April 12, 2021 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley There are glimmers of a brighter summer amid the retail freeze that has gripped Guildford’s town centre for so long. If the government’s road-map works out, all…
March 20, 2021 / 3 Comments / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley Sky News came to “affluent” Guildford last week (Sunday, February 28) to highlight the pressures facing shops and businesses in the run up to the chancellor’s budget…
March 3, 2021 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley The independent skate shop in Jeffries Passage, Decade, has been summonsed to court for non-payment of the Business Improvement District (BID) levy. The £588,000 levy (2019 figures)…
February 20, 2021 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley “It’s a wealthy town. There are people with the assets, probably had money for a while, and that’s the sort of clients we look for,” says James…
February 20, 2021 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley With empty shops in the town centre at the highest level for a decade at least, we wanted to have a peek into the post-pandemic future of…
February 12, 2021 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley and David Rose Prestige Pawnbrokers, featured in the Channel 4 documentary Posh Pawn, is setting up shop in Guildford High Street, close to the George Abbot statue…
January 29, 2021 / 1 Comment / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley Tesco opened its new Express store on Thursday (January 14) at Queen Elizabeth Park, Stoughton. Occupying part of the former Budgens’ store on Railton Road, the new…
January 16, 2021 / 1 Comment / Read MoreBusiness owners are invited to learn about Guildford council’s 2021-22 budget and get information on supporting future economic recovery at their free online economic briefing on Thursday, January 14. Places…
January 10, 2021 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley Guildford was quiet today (Sunday, December 20) on the first day of Lockdown 3. Only shops selling essential goods were open. Traders on the few stalls open…
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