LUDLOW is under attack!
Not Roundheads this time, but faceless bureaucrats sitting behind desks in other towns and cities who have imposed significantly above-average increases in business rates.
After being failed by a slim majority vote over the Dun Cow Supermarket proposal, the town’s now split into two camps, those that will and those that won’t be paying business rates.
The new system means that, if lucky enough to be below a threshold figure, businesses will pay nothing but those that are over face massive hikes in taxes.
The new rateable values for Ludlow are quite absurd, with rises which hit 80% on some streets like Church Street and Broad Street, and some individual business facing even more, only partially sweetened by relief over the next three years.
It’s the principle the Ludlow Chamber of Trade and Commerce are fighting as the loss of our smaller independent shops in premises with slightly larger frontages, what makes Ludlow so quintessentially attractive to so many, will undoubtedly disappear forever.
Please write to our MP Phillip Dunne and sign petitions online and in shops.
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