Night time economy

We want to improve night time economy. We'd like to understand more about what you like to do in your evenings and nights out. How you think we could make this better in the future?

A survey of people living/working to understand how they use ENTE was undertaken in October 2018.  A total of 1027 responses were received.,

Key findings include:

• 76% of respondents said they most often go out in Central London for their evenings and nights out.  74% said that they go out in Demo Council's area.
• The most significant factors that influence respondents to go out in Demo Coun's area for an evening/night out are “quality of venue” (69%) and “choices of things to do” (65%)
• On an evening/night out, 89% of respondents said that they enjoy eating out, 75% said they enjoy drinking at pubs and bars, 58% said they enjoy going to the cinema, 48% enjoy live music performances, 39% enjoy the theatre and 33% enjoy comedy shows.
• The main ways respondents find out about upcoming events and activities are social media (77%), word of mouth (72%) and websites (43%).
• On their last ENTE visit, 89% of respondents went to Town Centre and 45% went to South area.  21% had visited Purley and 19% had visited Crystal Palace.
• On their last visit 59% of respondents said they had visited in the evening

You can find out more by looking at the more detailed report below.

The report went to the council's scrutiny committee on 11 December. Here. it was decided that.