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Shoppers and customers of town centre businesses in Bury St Edmunds have the chance to help their favourites win a prize this week in a competition designed to support local companies. Itâs part of a Love Local campaign for the town being launched on Valentinesâ Day by award-winning Town Crier Tony Appleton in a special video message to be broadcast on social media.
Our Bury St Edmunds which runs the townâs Business Improvement District (BID) is backing the initiative which was first started by ShopAppy.com in 2019 declaring February 14 Love Local Day. This year it will be the first of a series of events by ShopAppy to champion localism and highlight the important and positive impact local businesses have in the life of their communities and how critical they will be in the social and economic recovery after the pandemic.
The apartment block is set to be built in Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
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A block of 49 retirement flats are set to built close to Bury St Edmunds town centre after the scheme received the green light from planners.
Churchill Retirement Living submitted proposals to West Suffolk Council to build the apartment complex in Risbygate Street in April this year.
The plans included demolishing a former bank and office building at the site to make way for the new retirement property.
A previous application to build flats at the site by Brown & Co., a separate retirement accommodation firm, was turned down in 2018 as planners raised concerns the design of the building would not represent the historic significance of Risbygate Street.
The apartment block is set to be built in Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds
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A block of 49 retirement flats are set to built close to Bury St Edmunds town centre after the scheme received the green light from planners.
Churchill Retirement Living submitted proposals to West Suffolk Council to build the apartment complex in Risbygate Street in April this year.
The plans included demolishing a former bank and office building at the site to make way for the new retirement property.
A previous application to build flats at the site by Brown & Co., a separate retirement accommodation firm, was turned down in 2018 as planners raised concerns the design of the building would not represent the historic significance of Risbygate Street.
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Staff at a Bury St Edmunds home and gift shop are celebrating today (Friday December 18) after their window display was judged to be the most festive in town – chosen for the first time by users of the Our Bury St Edmunds LoyalFree app instead of a local ‘mystery’ judge.
It means that LOFT & SPIRES at 61 Cornhill has won the annual competition for three of the last four years. Highly commended were florist Tudor Rose in Hatter Street and Javelin in Abbeygate Street both of whom have previously won the prestigious Our Bury St Edmunds Shield and are known for their stunning Christmas window displays.
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7:00 PM December 11, 2020
Shoppers have started to return to East Anglian town centres after the end of lockdown - but footfall isn t as high as a year ago
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Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich town centres are bustling after shops reopened – but there are fears for the hospitality industry.
In Bury St Edmunds, footfall has improved post-lockdown – and there are hopes this will continue up to Christmas Day.
Bury BID chief executive Mark Cordell in the Arc shopping centre Picture: OUR BURY ST EDMUNDS
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There were 11,020 visitors on Saturday, December 5 – the first Saturday after lockdown - compared to 9,406 the previous Saturday.