Bathgate Town Centre Scotland’s First Business Improvement District.

Bathgate Town Centre

Scotland’s First

Business Improvement District

Key Lessons• Partnership between Public & Private Sectors• BID must be Business Led• Detailed Project Plan• Establish level of Local Authority support at early stage• Get the 1 to 1 consultations right• Identify ‘Champions’ within business community• Careful consideration of defined BID area• Consider Demonstration Project

Enterprising Bathgate

- The Business Plan

• Perception & Image

• Safe & Secure

• Clean & Attractive

• Accessibility

• Facilitation & Management

Perception & Image

• Bathgate Music Festival

• Christmas Lights

• Christmas Events Programme

• Bathgate Guide to Shops & Services

• Establish Bathgate Brand

Safe & Secure

• Retail Radio Link Set Up

• Improvements to CCTV Provision

• Monitoring of CCTV

• Information sharing via Scottish BusinessCrime Centre

• Support for ‘Best Bar None’ Scheme for pubs

Clean & Attractive

• Shopfront Improvement Scheme

• Vennels & Lanes Enhancement Strategy

• Bathgate in Bloom

• Spring Clean Up Campaign

Shopfront Improvement Scheme

No. of Grants

Awarded

Total Value ofGrants Paid

Average Grant

Total Expenditu

reInvoiced

Average Expenditu

re

84 £42,368

£504 £226,915

£2,701

Accessibility

• Signage Strategy

• Car Parking Strategy

• Town Map

• Town Walks

Facilitation & Management

• Management of BID

• Newsletters

• Facilitation between Businesses and Local Authority/Scottish Government

• Promoting Bathgate at a national level and sharing

best practice with other potential BIDs

Public Realm Guide

• Setting a Vision & Strategy for Bathgate

• Providing a Design Framework for Planning Officers

& Developers

• Help deliver a more vibrant & sustainable Town

Centre

Investing in Bathgate Town Centrewww.bathgatebid.com