The letter highlights the alarming financial pressures facing businesses. Energy prices, rents, supplier costs, and wage increases, combined with the repayment of legacy pandemic debt and rising NICs, have created an unsustainable trading environment.
With more noise complaints than ever, beloved local venues are frequently finding themselves at the mercy of councils' licence hearings... a great pub in Clerkenwell, the Sekforde, called on Londoners to help keep it open after noise complaints.