Working together, creatively
- Council to investigate, in the context of the Arts and Culture Strategy, how the creative economy can tie into night time economy ambitions
- Council to investigate, in the context of the Arts and Culture Strategy, how the creative economy can tie into night time economy ambitions
- The Council to engage town centre BIDs and local business associations on promoting the night time economy in their local areas, for example to deliver events or offers, such as a paint shop working with a furniture shop to deliver an interior design night
- Respond to the feedback of Queer Wandsworth on a variety of issues, including a new LGBTQI+ venue in the borough, encourage venues to present rainbow flags, and celebrate the LGBTQI+ community
New, affordable and flexible spaces
- Work with anchor cultural venues and bars to promote and revitalise their night time offer. This could be through introducing or expanding live music and performance such as comedy, theatre or poetry
- Daytime businesses and institutions such as schools to experiment with ‘second life’ evening and night-time activities
- Work with businesses and other organisations to introduce more evening and night time uses, including community hubs that are not solely based around drinking
- Rethink workspace provision now that workspace is in the same use class as retail, allowing for mixed retail and workspace units without requiring planning consent. This could activate high streets by those requiring desk / studio space at night
- Promote sustainable, ethical goods at night such as late opening repair shops, vegetable box pick-up spots and healthy takeaway establishments
Night workers
- Encourage businesses to provide good working practices, including London Living Wage, and support for staff to entice and retain workers in the hospitality and gig economy sectors
- Engage with employers to reassure workforce that travel during night time hours is safe and to make provision for more employee journeys in out-of-office hours
- Support businesses to recruit to the night time workforce for example through job fairs at local universities, community spaces and youth clubse
- Work with night time employers to provide information on legal and mental health services for night shift workers, collaborating with initiatives such as Night Club
- Special discounts for night workers at specified businesses
Digital inclusivity
- An easy-to-use online calendar showing day and night activities for each town centre, promoted across the borough through a strong visual campaign. Though various streams do already exist such as wandsworthart.com, these should be centralised
DData collection and incentives
- Comprehensive data on town and local centres collected for businesses to understand where later opening hours could work best
- Work with local businesses to encourage later opening times trials