Standing view · business · Greenwich
deteriorating, held with established confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2026-06.
The business base in Greenwich has been shrinking. Business deaths were 415 in the quarter to June 2025 and business births 375 in the quarter to December 2025, both recorded as unfavourable against the usual pattern for their quarter, and those two readings are what the view rests on. In 2026 there were 10,410 businesses, 8,905 of them employing 0 to 4 people, 410 employing 10 to 19 people, 175 employing 20 to 49 people, 65 employing 50 to 99 people, and 11,880 business sites. Closures and registrations each reading badly once, in different quarters, holds the view at established.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Greenwich. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Business deaths | 2025-06 | deteriorating |
| Business births | 2025-12 | deteriorating |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses | 2026 | rising |
| Businesses employing 0 to 4 people | 2026 | rising |
| Businesses employing 10 to 19 people | 2026 | rising |
| Businesses employing 20 to 49 people | 2026 | rising |
| Businesses employing 50 to 99 people | 2026 | rising |
| Business sites | 2026 | rising |