Plymouth waterfront Partnership

Creating the Plymouth Waterfront of Tomorrow, Today.
PWP BID, one voice encompassing over 960 businesses across four square miles of Plymouth’s Waterfront.

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The BID’s role is as important as ever, encompassing over 960 businesses across Plymouth’s Waterfront including: The Barbican, Sutton Harbour, Bretonside, Queen Anne’s Battery, Hoe, Millbay, Royal William Yard, Mount Batten and Mayflower Marina.

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We’re very grateful to all those businesses that voted to support the Waterfront BID4 plan.

It’s different to the plans that we’ve delivered over the past three years, focusing on the themes of Planet, People, Place, and positioning Nature and Climate resilience at the heart of our work.

We’ll be focusing our actions on Celebrating Our Vitality, Moving People Around, Shaping Our Place and Supporting Each Other.

Our vision is as one of Europe’s most attractive places, at the forefront of Britain’s Ocean City, Plymouth’s City-Centre Waterfront is a healthy, prosperous, resilient environment and vibrant destination for business, entertainment and regeneration. Attractive, safe, secure, verdant and celebrating global embarkation, exploration, innovation and science, this is an exceptional place for people to live, work and visit, where an outstanding quality of life is enjoyed by everyone.

A place of big horizons

A place of endless creativity

A place of living adventure

How to Get Involved in the Waterfront

If you want to get involved in supporting the Waterfront, through donations, sponsorship, volunteering or in some other way, we have many ways in which you can work with us. You can be based anywhere, a business or an individual.

Get in touch with us to find out more, we’re looking forward to hearing from you:

Sarah Gibson, Chief Executive and Plymouth Waterfront Manager
07971 901957 || Sarah.gibson@plymouth.gov.uk

Kim Downer, Deputy Chief Executive and Business Liaison Manager
07765 686575 || Kim.downer@plymouth.gov.uk

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Encompassing 960+ Waterfront businesses

ONE UNITED VOICE TO DRIVE GROWTH

About the bid

The Waterfront Business Improvement District (BID) has been in operation since April 2012 and is delivered through Plymouth Waterfront Partnership Ltd (PWP), a not-for-profit organisation.

The BID encompasses more than 960 businesses (approximately 560 Voting Levy Payers and 400 Basic Level Businesses) across four square miles of the Plymouth Waterfront.

BID Levy paying businesses with a Business Rateable Value of over £7,000 within the geographical area currently pay 1.7% Levy based on their rateable value.

Plymouth Waterfront businesses voted in favour to renew the BID for a further five years in April 2022 and the BID will operate until the end of March 2027. Our projects outlined in the current Business Plan for Waterfront BID3 are focused around four key themes: Business Voice, Environmental Excellence, Vibrant Tourist Attraction, Transformational – Creating The Waterfront Of Tomorrow, Today.

PWP works in close partnership with the Plymouth City Centre Company BID, Destination Plymouth and Plymouth City Council.

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Current BID Supported Initiatives