"Terry Harper" wrote in message
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On Sun, 08 May 2005 08:51:51 GMT, (Neil
Williams) wrote:

I've long said there should be serious tax breaks for companies
relocating their HQs out of London to other cities, particularly in
the North. London, quite simply, *is* too full, and it is ludicrous
that the situation has arisen whereby some people are having to travel
two hours up each way to/from work on a daily basis.

Maybe HMG should be the first to reduce the tax burden by doing this
with its own offices? Maybe even outsourcing to India or further
afield?

Hasn't this been Government policy for some time now?

As for major companies moving out of London, I feel most would not, for fear
of losing their 'competitive edge'.

As for major companies moving out of London, I feel most would not,
for fear
of losing their 'competitive edge'.

Possibly years ago , but these days given most communications are
electronic
it shouldn't really matter. If a large company relocated to a perhaps
slightly
depressed region it could do wonders for the local economy plus it
would be
cheap to live in for the employees (at least initially) and would take
some pressure
off london. Unfortunately london like most big cities suffers from the
black hole
effect , the more people come in , the stronger the attractions to
others becomes
so they more in too and so forth until you end up with a nightmare like
Mexico
City or Tokyo which have the population of a medium sized country each.

B2003

On Mon, 9 May 2005 00:39:55 +0100, "Robin Mayes"
wrote:

As for major companies moving out of London, I feel most would not, for fear
of losing their 'competitive edge'.

There3 are a lot of insurance companies that moved out of London, to
places like Tunbridge Wells, Horsham, Bristol, etc, and many an
engineering company have moved away, to Crawley, Portsmouth, Brighton,
and so on.

The London Office syndrome is based on a fallacy.
--
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org

The London Office syndrome is based on a fallacy.

So the couple of million people who commute in daily in packed tubes &
buses and mile long tailbacks during the rush hour are all heading to
the
shops or to feed the pigeons?

B2003

On 10 May 2005 01:32:07 -0700, "Boltar"
wrote:

The London Office syndrome is based on a fallacy.

So the couple of million people who commute in daily in packed tubes &
buses and mile long tailbacks during the rush hour are all heading to
the
shops or to feed the pigeons?

No, they are victims of the fallacy, that it is essential for
companies to have offices in London, so that they are close to the
seat of government, and other influential bodies.

Another misconception is that foreigners will not visit you unless you
have an office in London.
--
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org