The Drink Valley expands in the town centre
Although it’s true that we don’t own many of the retail units in the town centre or set the rents, we do work with owners and landlords to help them bring their buildings back into use.
A recent example of this is The Drink Valley on Fleet Square.
We worked with Dhiraj Pujari to relocate his business from The Brunel to his new location which offered him more space and has allowed him to open up his own microbrewery and bar alongside his shop.
Dhiraj said: “We were looking for an expansion into our next stage. We couldn’t go ahead at The Brunel so we started looking at other units in the area.
“Now we have our own brewery, a new thing for this side of town. We have a bar and our craft beer shop as well.
He added: “It’s been straightforward reopening, the Council has helped us with our planning and licensing applications, everything went really well.
“It’s going to take time. Big premises were taken up by big companies but they’re leaving. Now it’s up to smaller businesses to open which will give more confidence to bigger businesses."
To find out more about the challenges and what is being done to support the area, visit our website
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