Soho restaurants now face £100,000 bill to let people outside

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Businesses will have to pay £7 a day per square metre

’s West End as a way of helping restaurants, bars and coffee shops which were hit financially by the pandemic.AdvertisementOwner of coffee shop Kaffeine Peter Dore-Smith told City A.M the charge was a ‘real kick in the guts’ during a time where Covid-19 restrictions have hurt the industry.

Westminster City Council confirmed it would be charging companies for running the scheme but added it had already spent more than £2 million on supporting al fresco dining across the city. ‘We think this is the right way to help our world-famous hospitality sector while also being fair to our residents who have to pick up the bill for the remaining costs of these schemes through their council tax.’

It added hospitality businesses would need to re-apply for pavement licences at the end of the month which could take up to two weeks to be issued.

 

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Your just killing London one tax at a time

So all these businesses that are struggling to meet their existing massive overheads are having their final lifelines cut by their council, some really sound economics there Westminster. Might as well close them down...

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