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An Overview of
Taunton Town
Centre
As Somerset's largest town Taunton
provides a hub for
everyone who lives, works or
visits it and all depend on the town
centre for a wide variety of services
and functions. These vary from access
to public services, shopping,
entertainment, leisure, culture,
transportation, government and public
administration and trade and commerce.
But it also goes a little further than
that! Taunton also hosts a wide
variety of historic and architectural
heritage, open green spaces, events
and tourism and has an active role for
a sustainable future.
Taunton Town has excellent links to
the national highway and rail networks
providing easy connection to most
major cities, air and sea ports.
Accompanied by the
comprehensive range of commercial
sites and high quality, modern
buildings available at affordable
prices or competitive rental levels,
any entrepreneur or business can see
that Taunton should be
seriously look and considered.
 The
town centre is maintained by Taunton
Deane Borough Council who provide a high
level of amenities and services to
businesses in the area. This can be
seen by the clean streetscape,
structural maintenance and cosmetic
maintenance. Their professional
support for relocating businesses is
just another part of their commitment
to helping companies; they even
provide grants to aid small businesses.
The retail sector in the town centre
carriers a wide range of national
retailers and fast food restaurants,
yet maintains a high level of
independent traders. When surveyed
shoppers agreed that this was one
factor that makes shopping in Taunton
attractive.
 This
mixture of national and local
companies are also appealing to the
Tourist as well residents and Tourism
is big business for the South West.
Somerset plays a large role in this
sector and the total business turnover
for tourism businesses in 2001 was
approximately £835 million. Add such
benefits with the expenditure of local
residents and you can see that Taunton
offers revenue at several levels. Each
providing a clear market for durable
goods and the service industry alike.
Taunton Town Centre also houses
Somerset's County cricket ground and
if future plans go ahead this will be
completely developed to an
international level cricket ground,
attracting a bigger and wider audience
for longer periods of time. Such
potential is just one part of a larger
plan (see
The Future section of our
website) to develop the town centre on
a scale that has never been achieved
or seen throughout Taunton's history,
and your business could benefit.
In summary you can see that Taunton
Town Centre is a viable and vital part
of the South West and its future could
be part of yours. So why not contact
our Town Centre Management team today
to discuss your needs or why not visit
our town to see why business is
important to us and to our commercial
clients.
For further information about Taunton
Town Centre take a brief look at
The
Statistics section. |
