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LOCAL quality independent businesses will be the key to the recovery and future stability of city centres and high streets. So says the chairman of GO! Southampton, the city’s Business Improvement District, a Daily Echo Love Local partner. Tim Keeping, general manager of the Marlands Shopping Centre, said Southampton has the ‘grass roots’ to make it happen. He said: “The move to online shopping has been with us for a long time and Covid has accelerated that. But I really feel optimistic about how we can build on brilliant independent retail and hospitality businesses we have. If you look at mainland Europe they have never been predominantly about national brands on the high street as we have in this country. Independent names have been alive and well for a long time, to an extent that is not the case here.”
SOUTHAMPTON-born chancellor Rishi Sunak is being urged to “save” the city where he grew up. The public plea comes from the city’s business improvement district, Go! Southampton, which says 82 per cent of its 600 member businesses are temporarily closed because of the lockdown. Mr Sunak – who was thrust into the national spotlight when he became chancellor a year ago today – is being urged to extend breaks such as furlough, low VAT and zero business rates. The chancellor was born in Southampton General Hospital and grew up in Portswood and Bassett before boarding at Winchester College. Go! Southampton members are urging Rishi Sunak to save Southampton