Business for Dumbarton is what it says on the tin. We represent businesses in the town and currently April 2008 have a membership of 68 businesses who are all keen to see the regeneration of Dumbarton’s town centre and High Street. There are no easy answers or miracle solutions for this task. However there are practical, achievable and basic steps which could be taken to put Dumbarton Town Centre back on the right track. We are at the forefront of the campaign to ensure that this will happen.
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Alex Thomson // June 1, 2008 at 9:15 pm |
I just found your site whilst browsing the net. I own the Motorcycle Training School, which can be located in the Vale of Leven Industrial Estate. Due to legislation implemented by the Driving Standards Agency which brings Motorcycle Training in line with EU policies. I now need to find land to implement changes to the Training I currently deliver to my students. I have contacted both Dumbarton Council and Scottish Enterprise asking for help to locate the area of land that I need,(within the estate) as without this my business will undoutbly close, as other small motorcycle businesses have. The response I have recieved from both Dumbarton Council and Scottish Enterprise is that, as a small business I would not be able to employ as many people as the bigger businesses that Dumbarton hopes to attract when the new bypass road is finnished. Both parties are assuming that by leaving the vaccent land in the Industrial Estate vaccent a large manufacture or the like will locate there and the offer of hundreds of jobs for local people will be there. Whilst I am in total agreement with this statement, it may never happen. Dumbarton is in decline and has been for many years, so why discourage small businesses who have already made the choice to locate their business in Dumbarton, some of whom have been there for many years. It does not make sense that the needs of Small Businesses have been overlooked by those who hold office. As the Town Centre is the Heart of Dumbarton, when businesses could no longer sustain themselves and reluctantly had to close the Council should have stepped in sooner.
What will happen to the smaller business, many of those are owned by local people when the new bypass road is opened and much larger businesses start to occupy the retail space that becomes available. Again the smaller businesses will on the whole lose out.
It makes sense to support all the local businesses who are already trading either within the town centre and at other locations around Dumbarton, after all we pay our business rates ect. so why can we not be given the support that we need in order to keep our business afloat and expand. If we can grow our businesses we can employ local people, we might never get as big as the multi national companies, but we deserve the same thought and consideration as any other business,no matter what their size and how many people they employ.
As they saying goes:
From a small Accorn the might Oak grows