The Market Town Welcome project will help the town and its tourism businesses to
develop a strong identity for Guisborough. The work will be tailored to fit with
the emerging plans for investment and improvements arising from the Guisborough
Retail Distinctiveness Project, but will be co-ordinated by a select Leadership
Group. This group, which has been convened specially for the project, will be
co-ordinated by Guisborough Market Town Partnership, and will include
representatives from the local council, the local tourism association, heritage
groups and local tourism and retail businesses.
The first meeting of the leadership group took place on Tuesday 4th November
2008 and a press article about the event can be downloaded by clicking on this
link.
More information about the event will be available in the downloads section of
the website.
The second and third events are scheduled to take place as follows:
Wider Workshop: 25th November 2008, 5:30pm @ The Ship Inn
Business Planning Workshop: 9th December 2008, 5:30pm @ The Ship Inn
If you are interested in attending any
of the events please register your interest by emailing
info@miller-research.co.uk. For
further information not available on the website, use the contact details below.
Main contact for the Group is Dennis Weller, who may be contacted at d.weller@sky.com
Once the plans are developed, the Leadership Group will continue to meet to
implement projects and to ensure that the wider Vision for Guisborough takes
account of the Market Town Welcome plan.
We hope that this website will develop as an online community during the course
of the project. Feel free to use the discussion forum to give us your thoughts.
Post your digital photos on the site. Show us what you like or dislike about
Guisborough. What would you show visitors? What would you steer them away from?
What makes you proud of your town? Whether you have a full professional kit or a
mobile phone, we want to see your images.
Please feel free to comment on any aspect of the project in your town:
Market Town Welcome Project gets underway
21 October 2008
Miller research, in Association with Bowles Green and Alison Caffyn, have been appointed to carry out a destination planning exercise in Guisborough between the end of October and Christmas 2008.
During this time, we shall be talking to businesses, holding a series of workshops and working with the Guisborough Market Town Partnership to develop Guisborough as a destination for tourists, whilst helping to improve services for local people at the same time.
For more details please contact Nick Miller (01873 851882
Nick Miller
How would a visitor view Guisborough?
30 January 2008
We asked people from Guisborough attending the Market Town Welcome event what they thought are the positive and negative aspects of the town from a visitor perspective - do you agree with them?
Positives
- Argument Cottage
- Westgate on Market Day in the sunshine
- Christmas Lights
- Priory
- Setting
- Trees on Westgate
- Guisborough Hall
- Chaloner Street
- Summer Events at the Priory
- People Friendly
- Forest/Walking/Cycling
Negatives
- Retail offer
- Food offer
- Empty and derelict shops
- Weekend drinking culture
- Location of TIC
- Signage
- Lack of Accommodation
- Lack of Investment
- Mainly landlord owned property at Westgate
Do you agree with their opinions? Tell us what you think on this noticeboard!
Kristel Sootarsing