Workspace Units in Williton, West Somerset discount rents

If you are looking for a bargain rented unit for your business and West Somerset is the place you want to be then check out the workspace units in Williton, West Somerset, UK where, according to the Free Press May 2nd 2008, discounts are likely to be offered to incoming tenants to promote occupancy.

Readers of this blog will know that I'm passionate about regeneration in West Somerset. They will also know that I do not believe large capital projects are the way to improve rates of pay in this area or increase wealth generally.

I was always dubious about the 1.75 million pounds sterling development at the Wrigleys site on the Roughmoor industrial estate. Some workspace units were advertised in Alcombe for a long time and never taken up. Now they have been converted to retail use and are occupied.

Presumably, there is a price that these workspace units at Williton will rent for and, when they are rented to businesses, nobody can deny that benefit will accrue to the area. However, it seems an expensive and slow approach to regeneration with dubious outcomes.

Exactly what grounds there were for undertaking this theoretical regeneration project unfortunately will probably never be known to the local general public because the West Somerset Council does not provide this sort of policy making information to us.

I have made the following point many times before and will make it many times again, probably with an equal lack of success.

Only when the West Somerset Council trusts the public in West Somerset enough to provide full information on policy making matters in open forum debate and also enables the systems for the public to forensically argue through options will the difficult task of regenerating West Somerset in a meaningful way be possible.

The way decisions are made at present relies on the knowledge and innovatory skills of a couple of local government beaurocrats and a handful of councillors each having individual skills which may be quite unrelated to the issue in question. However well motivated or however hard they try, the odds are stacked against them.

The way decisions should be made is after consulting with the best and most knowledgable forensic thinkers in West Somerset in open public debate using Internet discussion boards. After which councillors and officers of West Somerset could and should act as arbitrators as is the rightful democratic representative system in this country, probably choosing between options.

I say to West Somerset Council, don't keep the facts and decision-making to yourselves. Unleash the power of public debate and expertise on the problem of regeneration in this area. You might be surprised at what people come up with. Unless you try this option, you will never know if it would have helped or not.

Sadly, I suspect the West Somerset Council will head away from such innovatory thinking and just bumble along as it has in the past.

Consequently, the general public in West Somerset will continue to suffer from highly questionable policy decisions.

Bye for now

Rob