Category Archives: News Centre

Good news. I’ve been asked to help with locations for the ‘improving high streets’ part of the Prime Minister’s summer tour. Actually, to be honest, I haven’t, but it’s been really interesting thinking about where I’d suggest and why. The … Continue reading →

– one with a landlord, the other an agent – but a huge amount learned about the town centre in focus… …but maybe more importantly, looking at the bigger national picture, another illustration of how having a working together, ‘place … Continue reading →

We’ve got to get past the idea that landlords of empty highstreet units are absentee or greedy or both… …at least we do if we’re going to make the rapid progress we can on reducing vacancy rates in our town … Continue reading →

Really interesting week setting out and talking through our tackling highstreet vacancy approach with two of the locations we’re supporting. Two very different places in varying locations with a different scale of headline vacancy rate challenge but still we’re confident … Continue reading →

This is why we’re trying to encourage every town or city centre with empty unit rates above the (too high anyway) national average, to get a tackling vacancy-focused ‘place partnership’ on the case. The biggest is that we know it … Continue reading →

Okay so it’s probably a bit technical, and maybe not gonna grab any morning headlines, but in the run up to release of the promised government High Streets Strategy… …I thought to revisit our tackling vacancy-focused ‘manifesto’: the policies and … Continue reading →

Really interesting updates this week if you’re following progress with the new High Streets Rental Auctions power. We’d said since the very early consultation conversations that it would be a valuable tool in the tackling vacancy toolkit but, importantly, as … Continue reading →

We know how positive an effect a new health services ‘community diagnostic centre’ (CDC), college or university campus and an arts & crafts makers collective store can have on town and city centres… …so how do we go about getting … Continue reading →

More than half of visibly vacant highstreet units have no agent involved in trying to get them back into use. It’s a stat that raises eyebrows every time we mention it and is one we table as a challenge for … Continue reading →