Town Centre Management

The Council works in partnership with Ilford Town
Centre Managment Ltd to deliver a 3 year London
Development Agency sponsored
Town Centre Alliance Programme. It's main aims are:
- training for businesses and their employees
- A retail jobs brokerage
- the training and employment of
town centre Ambassadors
- a “Buy with Confidence” quality scheme for town centre
businesses
- shopper and retailer surveys and project evaluation
- outreach to local businesses
Business Improvement Districts
- Supporting the Ilford Town Centre partnership to create a
BiD starting in 2008/09.
Redbridge District and Local Centres
- Focussing on supporting local business partnerships in Wanstead, Gants Hill, Barkingside and South Woodford, will support the partnerships in
achieving an area wide approach to economic regeneration in the
town centres
- Working to support local centre improvements across the
borough, particularly where the Borough needs to preserve quality
environments and where there is a need for upgrading and coping
with rapid growth.