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UKHospitality (UKH) has responded to the ’Draft London’ plan, making a series of recommendations to promote the capital’s hospitality businesses.
UKH CEO Kate Nicholls said that this is a good opportunity to ‘liaise’ with the Mayor’s Office and make sure that hospitality businesses’ voices ‘are heard’. She said the draft plan has a wide range incorporating ‘numerous’ elements, many of which will have a ‘direct influence’ on hospitality businesses.
Nicholls said: “One of the key aims of UKHospitality is to bring together the entire sector as one to make its collective voice heard. We have been very pleased to respond to the draft plan highlighting issues such as: Agent of Change, late-night licensing, supporting hospitality and employment.
“The London Finance Commission recommended the full devolution of property taxes, including council tax, business rates and stamp duty, as well as permissive powers to develop new mechanisms, subject to consultation.”
She added: “We are calling for that devolution to include the ability to administer reliefs for the hardest hit venues and ease the burdens on London businesses hit hardest by the capital’s high property values, and also to redress the imbalance of property tax bills between our businesses and digital ones.”
