Swedish BID team visit Bathgate

Representatives from an area in Sweden considering setting up a Business Improvement District visited Bathgate in December. There is a strong willingness to develop the Lerum municipality – an area about 30km northeast of Gothenburg – and setting up a rural BID would greatly assist the collaboration of businesses, estate owners, landowners, voluntary associations and public authorities in the area.

There main reasons for visiting Scotland at this stage was to learn more about the BID process and to share inspiration, motivation and ideas with likeminded people in Scotland and to investigate the possibility of future cooperation with Scottish BIDs.

The representatives who visited Bathgate as well as the other BID areas of Edinburgh and Dunfermline were Laila Gibson, Business Development Manager at Oijared Estate, Stefan Johansson, CEO at Naas Castle one of the main visitor attractions in the area and Torbjorn Lindstedt, Conservation Manager at Harling Property Management.