On 31st March 2009, Councillor Ben Murphy met with local business leaders to unveil and launch the new website of Epping’s Town Centre Partnership - www.eppingtcp.com
 
The website has been designed to provide a wealth of information for shoppers, residents, visitors, retailers and businesses highlighting why they should choose Epping town centre.
 
The site boasts “Epping is a traditional market town that has characteristics dating back to the 13th Century, which is seen in the architecture of the buildings lining the High Street and still today provides a home for the famous Monday market along with a mixture of independent and high street stores, making Epping the perfect choice for everyone. For those wanting to grab a quick bite to eat or sit back and relax, the town centre also plays host to a number of cafés, pubs and restaurants to suit everyone’s taste-buds and price ranges, again making for the perfect location to combine shopping and leisure within a traditional setting. Situated in south west Essex, bordering both London and Hertfordshire, with extensive transport links, this makes Epping a place easily located by all modes of transport."

The site itself provides a list of local businesses with contact details and links, as well as historical information about the town itself, how to become involved in the Town Centre Partnership, useful links to other organisations which support local businesses and a list of events taking place in and around the town.
 
Councillor Murphy explained, “Our Town Centre Partnership is ultimately a forum for our local businesses. It provides them with an opportunity to come together and share their thoughts and raise issues directly with local Council Leaders. Over the past year or so, we have worked hard to pull this organisation back from the brink or extinction and I am so pleased that we are able to launch this excellent website today. It really does draw-in a wealth of information about the town under one, easy-to-access and easy-to-manipulate website.”
 
The Chairman of Epping‘s Town Centre Partnership, Barry Seager, who work at Hair by Nigel in the High Street explained: “The website acts a tool for us to communicate with each other, with customers and with visitors to the town. We hope this will make the work we are doing on behalf of the business community in Epping much more accessible and will show local businesses that we are back on our feet and moving forward.”
 
He continued to say: “We are all aware that in the current economic climate, small businesses are finding these difficult times indeed. If we can support people by publicising and promoting what each business has to offer, that’s great! The site itself is very much a work in progress and this is just the first step for us. We hope that in the weeks ahead we can publicise special promotions and offer customers who visit the site discounts. This is all about working together for the good of enhancing our business community and the more people who get involved, the more effective we will be.”
 
Members of the public can visit the new site at www.eppingtcp.com or can email info@eppingtcp.com for more information.
 
Any businesses who are not listed and would like to be are advised to log on to the website and send in their details.