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24.01.2022 THIS is why being mindful of small business is so important. THIS.

23.01.2022 Thanks to Johanna Warren there will be an article on Mid Town Small Businesses and how they feel about this new green plan for Elizabeth Street! Check out the Mercury tomorrow!

23.01.2022 I wrote this to all the Aldermen on the Hobart City Council yesterday: Dear Members I note with concern that the HCC survey produced recently for the Elizabeth Street (Midtown) Streetscape Project may not in fact be all that representative of the local community.... Basing major investment on the back of 168 people and their personal opinions feels fool-hardy at best. Given the lack of interest being given to the very people it affects most - small businesses along the Elizabeth Street Strip and in my case - just a few metres from Elizabeth Street any proposed impact my clients may have is considered unfairly irrelevant. It is pretty damning that feed-back from interviewed small businesses that stated how their gross income could be affected negatively by as much as 50% were mentioned and then effectively dismissed for the greater green picture in your own reports!. It appears with the emphasis on Cafe's at the expense of every other small business and their families that Hobart is doomed to be a mere latte city - with no other small businesses around. A few of the local small business people were moved to attempt a survey of our own - now standing at 142 entries. Unlike the Hobart City Council survey it offered the ability to like and unlike the proposal at hand - and it found that just 10% of participants liked the concept - a far strike from the 70% proposed in your reports. Whilst I do not entertain that this survey is perfect I think it certainly highlights the inadequacies with the HCC survey being relied on. I ask that you seriously consider this project in light of the detrimental effect it will have on so many small business owners in the area. Parking is important, especially in light of the lack of public transport. Hobart is not a place just for the lucky rich elite - it should be accessible for all. I attach the survey. Sincerely Louise Bloomfield

23.01.2022 This project involved few in number when it came to the small business businesses who would be massively affected by it all. Notwithstanding I don't think the width of the road has been properly taken into consideration - it appears to do all they wish it will be a single laneway at the end not a functioning road.

22.01.2022 Reply to my email from Cr BIll Harvey: We are not going to win an argument with Bloomfield and i don’t give much cred to private surveys from people with a bias against the council on most things. Sorry Bill - I didn't attempt to sway anyone with that survey and all opinions were covered - including those who like the proposal and those who don't. But thanks for the compliment on my debating skills. Guess you know I am right.

21.01.2022 Results of survey as at 11/11/2020 131 participants: Only 2 use a bike to travel about and just 10% want a bike lane 55% would NOT use an outdoor cafe area... Nearly 60% want improved parking Petrol fumes, safety, slowed traffic, disabled access and parking are considered major issues with the proposal. Questions were strong on why only cafes being promoted and not other businesses who also suffered in COVID times. HCC needs to wake up to what people really need and want in their area. It affects livelihoods.

21.01.2022 A rebuttal is in the paper today - page 11. I note this is available online too

20.01.2022 Parking. Is. Hell.

19.01.2022 Hi everyone! The survey is going really well - but we really need as many people as possible to fill it in so we can really show what the community feels. Please feel free to share out to others - particularly small businesses in the Mid Town Hobart area!

19.01.2022 Also from HCC Mid Town Survey: 'What is important to you?'

18.01.2022 Not suited to Elizabeth street at all. Rather would be dangerous.

17.01.2022 What sort of a city are we living in? I was TOLD yesterday there would be 3 temporary dining decks installed in Elizabeth St, between Melville and Brisbane St...reets, before Christmas. It is only a 12 month trial. This is part of Covid recovery - an answer for social distancing. What are all the NON dining businesses receiving? We all have social distancing and number restrictions too. I see customers walk away all the time due to not being able to gain access because the maximum number is already inside. I can’t believe there hasn’t been any consultation or discussion. See more

16.01.2022 My unpublished reply in Mercury: When a Council Selects their business winners and losers. Business Success should be determined by whether a business can attract people to their services not by government intervention. We are surrounded by people passionate about what they can do. So much so that they are willing to risk their home, sanity and years of their lives to it.... ‘HCC's Midtown project’, ‘vouchers for cafes’ and the like, demonstrates a heavy hand of government imposing who can and who cannot trade. Who will be supported and who can do it on their own Business is difficult enough as it is, without a Councils’ misguided help. Does small business have a voice? Like an over-zealous rental agent, councils can impose inspections, and as per the single use plastic policy, require change to our products and services at the whim of the council no matter the cost of implementation. The Lord Mayor suggests two years of consultation. Yet when we inquired of the local community, we found just 60% even knew about it. Apparently Hobart City Council community consultation is done via junk mail ignore at your peril and that is if they even deigned to send you one at all. Group community consultations were performed the week before the COVID19 lockdown which was clearly not a good time for small business struggling with impending change. Online surveys? How about allowing a dissenting opinion in them, or taking heed of the fact that the respondents indicated small shops ARE important. To those who suggested there are just 2 ‘greens’ in the Hobart City Council have clearly forgotten that an additional two elected representatives also got there on the Green Vote being the Lord Mayor herself who left the greens when she lost preselection within the Greens for running for Mayor, and then Cnr Ewin who also decided mid election to leave the Greens. Then you have Cr Dutta whose voting on developments make even Cr Burnett look pro development. It's clear that the Council is horribly polarised and we all as a community are paying the price. Small businesses throughout Southern Tasmania just want to chase their dream, we don't want to play politics, we want to give you something outstanding that you will tell others about. I challenge you. Go to a small business, and ask them What do you love most about your business You'll be inspired by our response. Louise Bloomfield.

14.01.2022 Lets collect some ideas about how we all feel - rightly or wrongly - its important to ensure YOUR voice is heard. I am also interested in any questions I could put in a survey to improve our viewpoint on how everyone feels about this traffic project.

13.01.2022 UTAS it seems has generously provided us with a precursor of what it will mean when there is no traffic and no parking in an area. NO CUSTOMERS. 10 days of little to no income. Its just not good enough.

12.01.2022 Message to Cnr Bill Harvey: the Mid Town Hobart strategy will affect my business profoundly. It will mean clients struggle to get to my office doors as your plan is to remove no less than 9 car parks within a small radius of my firm. I have not just my clients to support but also a number of staff. Suggesting that I am speaking out is due to election chances (which is 2 years away!) is both inaccurate and mean spirited. Shame on you.

12.01.2022 CWA’s views on the upgrade for some, downgrade for others https://www.facebook.com/148874505158859/posts/3540056016040674/

11.01.2022 Mid Town Hobart's woes are in the Saturday's Mercury - both page 27 AND page 52.

11.01.2022 News! I will be TripleM Radio 107.3 with Brian Carlton #spoonman at 7:50am Wednesday

10.01.2022 Toxic ideology is killing our community and destroying business Louise Bloomfield Hobart council is a nest of greens...Continue reading

10.01.2022 Hi everyone we will be releasing the results of the survey soon - so PLEASE ensure you have filled in the form. Its 13 questions, takes 3 minutes and ensures you get a say in what happens to Elizabeth Street between the CBD and North Hobart. Our small businesses rely on this ...

10.01.2022 Elizabeth Street MidTown Hobart Small Businesses are invited to participate in our survey/community via mail chimp email.

09.01.2022 Today I thought I would post some quotes from the HCC report on the Mid Town Strategy

08.01.2022 SUBVERSIVE: When the Lord Mayor feels she doesn't have a loud enough voice she calls on her private fan base to holler us down. Thing is - we have everything to lose and should not have to tolerate this bad faith behavior.

08.01.2022 Hope to see Opinion piece on Saturday about Hobart Mid Town !!!

08.01.2022 "Um you know the whole Metro side of things is um becoming a challenge. I know Metro doesn't like the parklets and Metro does you know want everything to be fast-moving transit through Elizabeth Street but there's a a lot of other demands and interests in Elizabeth Street." Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds City Infrastructure Committee meeting 25th November 2020. The above is WHY the traffic assessments have not been included in the strategic plans. Metro are not on the same page as the Lord Mayor.

07.01.2022 So if the Metro bus service are still asking for a transport impact report and have highlighted the need to massively adjusting their routes possibly as you simply cannot fit a bike lane with a bus toute on what is generally a narrow street....

06.01.2022 Thanks to #spoonman Triple M Hobartfor having me on the radio today. Managed to hopefully get the message out to a wider audience the issues we face right now in Mid Town Hobart.

05.01.2022 Toxic ideology SIMON BEVILACQUA IS Hobart being poisoned by toxic green ideology? Failed city council candidate Louise Bloomfield, an accountant by trade, reckons it is and lists a litany of issues about Hobart City Council in a strident and provocative Talking Point article in the Mercury today....Continue reading

04.01.2022 Article in todays paper