Small businesses put more of their profits back into the local community than the big corporates - but too often they get muscled out by the giant supermarkets and chainstores, leaving us with identical high streets up and down the country. It doesn’t have to be that way. In Norwich, Green councillors successfully blocked the expansion of supermarket chains.
And around the country, we’re going to help the unique and the irreplaceable local guys to compete against the multinationals. We will change planning laws so that all new large business developments have to provide affordable premises for small enterprises - at least 50% of the total trading space.