Taunton - A look at the failed Taunton BID ballot 2020 & the NO campaign against it.

Taunton has an interesting BID history:

2007 - BID established after a YES ballot result, with a 5 year term ending in 2012.

2012 - BID renewal ballot resulted in a NO, so BID kicked out.

2014 - BID development ballot resulted in a NO again (with a worse result than in 2012).

2020 - Some bright sparks decide to bring BID back to ballot again, and the ballot was ‘suspended’ 2 hours before ballot closure for no good verifiable reason, so NO BID yet again! Interesting that when one of the BID proposer steering group members was asked what happened to the BID he replied “we knew it wasn’t going our way”.

The following is a series of articles are from the hard fought NO campaign for the 2020 ballot, which basically beat the Council and BID proposers into submission. You can see how the campaign developed and many strong evidence based NO arguments were put across, so please read with interest and feel free to copy / use any article tailored for your own NO BID campaign.

Minehead BID feedback.

Taunton BID have been shining a light on Minehead BID, they ‘wheeled’ them into the business plan launch 22/1 and the Taunton BID Chairman gave a radio interview that week saying everyone is happy, really? There was a significant NO vote against the BID and opinion across the Minehead business community appears to remain split on whether there are benefits making it all worthwhile. Read some of the negative feedback we’ve received and you’ll soon see that some things don’t change from Taunton’s experiences last time, not everyone is happy, and we can’t trust the utopian picture Taunton BID are “selling”!

Against BID26 September 2019minehead bid feedback, minehead

Taunton - A look at the failed Taunton BID ballot 2020 & the NO campaign against it.

The following are a series of blog articles used as part of the NO campaign, scrutinising the BID proposals and summarising objections.