Putting Belfast into the Top Ten Jane Bevis Northern Ireland Retail Consortium
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Putting Belfast into the Top Ten
Jane Bevis
Northern Ireland Retail Consortium
• £9.4 billion in retail sales
• 6,420 VAT registered retailers, operating
from 9,935 retail outlets
• 74,500 people work in retail – 10% of the total workforce
• 12% of the Gross Domestic Product
What makes a good retail offer?• A Unique Sense of Place
• Attractive Public Realm
• Planning for Success
• Safety and Security
• Accessibility
• Supportive Regulatory and Fiscal Regimes
What makes a great retail offer?
• Flagship stores of iconic brands
• Wide choice of high street
and designer brands
• Generous offering of
unique, local and niche
stores
What makes a great retail offer?• Great architecture, blending old and new
• Fabulous historic and cultural sites, and entertainment
• Broad range of hotels,
restaurants and cafes
to suit all budgets
Investment
Investment
INVESTMENT
Investment in private sector confidence
• Supportive and stable
regulatory environment across
all levels of government
• Fair fiscal regimes
• Consistency, continuity and certainty
Investment in infrastructure
• Customer base – Regional– Hinterland visitor base– International visitor base
• Logistics– Customers and staff– Goods
Customer base
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Belfast Cardiff Liverpool Manchester Glasgow Birmingham
Population Regional population Catchment population Overnight visitors
Spending power
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GVA per capita
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GVA
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Investment in people
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Noqualifications
Apprenticeships
Skills qualifications: Sales staff
NIUK
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Skills qualifications: Retail managers
NIUK
• Sense of Place– Maximise inherent characteristics of local heritage/natural
surroundings– Ensure complementary retail mix– Effective marketing
• Public Realm– Attractive trading environment– Role of enforcement– Effective partnership
In Summary
• Planning for Success– Strategic planning to define
framework – Collaborative approach to retail-led
regeneration– Programme for monitoring town
centre health
• Accessibility– Incentivise public transport use, not penalise motorists– Car park revenue ring-fenced – Delivery curfews revisited in light of
technological improvements
• Safety and Security– Retail crime and anti-social behaviour a law enforcement priority– Deterrence through concerted action by all agencies– Neighbourhood policing tailored to business community needs
• Supportive Regulatory and Fiscal Regime– A freeze on all new property and business rate burdens– Partnerships should be at the heart of new revenue raising– Proportionate regulation only
Thank You
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