Author Archives: Iain Nicholson

I so wish you could’ve been with us at the two ‘place partnership’ founding meetings we were lucky to co-host last week. Now you might be thinking, that’s a bit niche… … but if you’re an agent, landlord, business owner, … Continue reading →

Arts & crafts, creative, culture, community could play a much bigger part than they already do by taking on more empty units in our town and city centres. It’s a case we regularly make in setting out potential ‘next steps’ … Continue reading →

What might seem like quite small positive changes can definitely make my day on a town centre visit. The lead image is one that did. It’s a now very long-time empty unit in Banbury that you see early on a … Continue reading →

Super excited to be headed out & about on a series of visits to support local tackling highstreet vacancy teams… First to begin work with two ‘place partnership’ groups as they get started on reducing the number of empty units … Continue reading →

Here’s the answer to having more business types from your wish list on the highstreet… …and it doesn’t include waiting for the government to adjust planning policy to help limit those you’re less keen on. Partly because that might take … Continue reading →

“It’s time to get that large vacant former retail brand or department store unit on your highstreet sorted.” Especially if you’ve more than one clustered together in part of your town or city centre. It’s a theme of more than … Continue reading →

20+ per cent of the units in your town or city centre are vacant.” What does that tell you…? Well obviously it says you have a significant empty units challenge, and if you’ve not already, you need get a positive, … Continue reading →