Breathe new life into our local High Streets and towns

Alex Burghart supports Brentwood and Ongar's towns and High Streets

The Conservatives will save the Great British High Street.

There is a great entrepreneurial spirit here in Essex – but some of our local High Streets are struggling, hit by online shopping. The Prime Minister has announced a three point plan to help reverse this decline by making it easier for shoppers to withdraw cash by scrapping business rates on free-to-use machines, by cutting the number of empty premises by making it simpler for businesses to set up shop, and substantially increasing the Future High Streets Fund to improve transport and access and convert empty retail units.

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Build Back Better

During the Conservative Party Conference 2020, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson MP, set out his new plan - Build Back Better.

A Pint a Week in a Local Pub

I am spending more and more of my time in the constituency talking to local businesses to hear about how they have faced down the challenges of 2020 and how they are planning for the months to come.

Eat Out to Help Out Scheme: Rishi Dishes

There is little doubt Brentwood and Ongar’s pubs, restaurants and cafes have benefitted from the Chancellor’s “Eat Out To Help Out” scheme which ended on Bank Holiday Monday.

Moving On and Masking Up

Let me begin this week by congratulating all those A Level and BTEC students from Brentwood and Ongar who got the results they needed to get into the University, college or apprenticeship they wanted.