“…work together, deploy all the projects that apply to your place, not just one or two elements, and you will have an effective strategy to reduce vacancy and improve the local mix of uses.”
Updating our guide to tackling #highstreet vacancy and a chance to reflect on what’s changed in the year since we first drafted it.
If you’d like a copy do please shout.
Reading about and hearing from agents, landlords and town or city management teams grappling solo with the challenges around getting empty units back into play or even just to look better has strengthened our already solid belief in the importance of having a positive, proactive ‘place partnership’ on the case.
But we’ve also seen more examples of arts & crafts, creative, culture, community, history & heritage, leisure, education, health and health & wellbeing uses taking on space and making a positive difference. There is, we’d argue, much more to come from those ‘alternative’ or additional uses.
The third big thing has been Aberdeen – led by Aberdeen Inspired – getting its Union Street Upper Floors Project underway so extending its own successful partnership approach to another significant challenge, and even at this early stage looking to have developed a way forward that every place with this an issue can deploy.
If your place has a mid / high teens or over 20 per cent headline vacancy rate we’d love to explore how you can join the local teams already seeing theirs reduced…
