How to revive the health of Sidmouth's high street > businesses form action group to promote town centre

There have been several initiatives of late to 'boost the town':

Including from the local MP:
Futures Forum: How to revive the health of Sidmouth's high street > East Devon MP's survey results
Futures Forum: How to revive the health of Sidmouth's high street > "MP vows to take town's high street woes to Government - and calls for future vision"

And local businesses:
Futures Forum: New Woolbrook tearoom 'to provide a community hot spot'
Futures Forum: How to revive the health of high streets > businesses thriving on Temple Street

There are lots of ideas out there:
Futures Forum: How to revive the health of high streets > focus on bringing back jobs and leisure activity to town centres
Futures Forum: Street trading, street markets and the High Street
Futures Forum: An idea for improving Sidmouth: making the town more pedestrian friendly: press report
Futures Forum: Is turning shops into homes the best way to save our high streets?
Futures Forum: Restoring vibrancy to our High Streets > thinking the unthinkable
Futures Forum: Is turning shops into homes the best way to save our high streets? >>> "Deregulation in pursuit of numbers"
Futures Forum: "Use libraries to revitalise high streets"

Sidmouth businesses have been meeting to look at some of these:

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