Eddisons insight invited on Greater Peterborough Business Survey

Eddisons’ Peterborough property insight has been called upon by regional business insiders who invited the firm’s Julian Welch for input and commentary on the 10th Annual Greater Peterborough Business Survey.

The annual survey is organised by the local office of top ten accountancy firm Azets in association with Opportunity Peterborough.

The survey canvasses the opinions and experiences of a cross section of companies operational in the Greater Peterborough Area about trading conditions in the previous twelve months.

Eddisons’ Director Julian Welch is a longstanding member of an expert panel of local business professionals who offer sector-specific insights once the surveys responses are collated and summarised.

The expert insights cover a range of professional business disciplines including recruitment, skills, corporate finance and commercial property.

In the latest survey, Julian Welch offers commentary on the ongoing resilience of Greater Peterborough’s industrial & manufacturing sectors, the rapidly changing picture of the retail and leisure markets in the city centre and wider region, as well as the impact of hybrid working on offices and workspaces.

Speaking about the latest Greater Peterborough Business Survey, Julian Welch said, “Our companies are adjusting fairly well to the financial and operational shocks of the past 12 months.

“There are echoes of the 2021 survey, where we reported that local companies were facing the twin pressures of the Covid-pandemic and the trading realities of the Brexit settlement with fortitude.

“Peterborough is one of these 60-minute hotpots from London that commercial – and residential – property insiders in the city have been plugging for years.

“The emerging post-pandemic domestic & business property scenario sees the area well-placed to capitalise on the new thinking about working and living.”

Mark Jackson, Partner at Top 10 accountancy firm Azets’ Peterborough, has urged businesses to take note of the report’s findings.

Speaking on its publication, he said, “The survey outlines many of the challenges, but also opportunities faced by businesses.

“We hope that the findings stimulate debate within businesses and between business leaders, and that we learn from each other to make our own organisations as successful as possible.”