Issue details

The Business Improvement District (BID) operating on Globe Business Park in Marlow comes to an end on the 31 December 2024. The BID has served an 84 Day Notice of its intent to instruct the billing authority (Buckinghamshire Council) to put the new BID proposal to ballot to enable a third five-year term from 1 January 2025. Legislation requires that the Council put ballot arrangements in place and, on receipt of a successful ballot outcome, plan for the billing and collection of a levy payment. The Council is also required to work with the BID proposers to develop baseline service and operating agreements to ensure that activity carried out by the BID is additional to that provided by the local authority and that reasonable charges for levy billing and collection are agreed. As a property owner on Globe Business Park, the Council will receive a ballot paper to vote for each unit vacant at the time of ballot.