Rewilding The High Street
by Dan Thompson I’ve been interested in finding new uses for old buildings since I was 13, and started working at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing. I fell in love […]
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The high street isn’t dead; Dan Thompson at Townstock
The High Street is dead. I know because Mary Portas has told us – she says ‘The days of a high street populated simply by independent butchers, bakers and candlestick […]
Guest Blog: Bedminster’s Portas Pilot
I live within 15mins walk of the North St/ East St area of Bedminster where the new investment is destined – it’s what we class as our local shops and […]
Shop vacancy at highest ever level
Great Britain’s shop vacancy rate is back at its highest recorded level. Town centre vacancy rates in Great Britain edged back up to 14.6% in June 2012, after a brief […]
Empty Shops Network 