The Ballot Process

1. Croydon Council will canvass to identify the eligible voters, by sending out named voter forms. If a form is not completed and returned, the ballot paper will be sent to the name provided by the local authority’s business rates department. 

2. The Council, at its own cost, will send a ballot paper to the eligible voter at each property. 

3. Each property in the BID will be entitled to one vote in respect of this BID proposal. This will be a postal ballot which will start on 12th Nov 2020, and close at 5pm on 10th Dec 2020. Ballot papers received after 5pm on 10th Dec 2020 will not be counted. 

4. In order for the proposal to be successful at ballot, the result will need to meet, as a minimum, by two independent criteria which are: 

• a) of those ballots returned by the close, those voting in favour of the BID proposal must exceed those voting against it, and 
• b) of those ballot papers returned by the close, the total rateable value of those properties which vote in favour, must also exceed the total of those voting against. 

5. The ballot will be counted by Croydon Council who will announce the result as soon as practically possible after the close of ballot. 

6. If successful at ballot, the BID will continue delivery of services in February 2021 and will continue for a period of 5 years to January 2026. 

7. At the end of the 5-year term eligible voters will be asked to vote on a BID renewal proposal.