All Mary Portas: High street review articles – Page 4
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NewsGovernment opens first pop-up shop to help boost high streets
The Government has opened its first ever pop-up shop in Whitehall today as part of its bid to help revitalise high streets.
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NewsShop vacancy rates fall to 2012 low
Shop vacancy rates in the UK decreased “significantly” in October to their lowest level in 2012.
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NewsMary Portas backs call to freeze business rates
High street campaigner Mary Portas has lent her support to the Fair Rates for Retail campaign calling for a freeze in business rates next year.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Portas Pilot Town - Mary Portas visits Liskeard
Mary Portas has defied critics on her crusade to revitalise the high street. John Ryan joins her in one of the Portas Pilot Towns.
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Business rates dubbed the 'retail poll tax'
The chair of the All Party Parliamentary Retail Group has dubbed business rates the “retail equivalent of the poll tax”.
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OpinionComment: The High Street: Who really cares?
This week the government have announced the formation of the Distressed Retail Property Taskforce (DRPT) to try and find ways of rejuvenating towns and cities – about time we say!
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NewsTaskforce created to tackle ailing high streets
Senior representatives from retail, banking, property and local government have come together to create a new taskforce that has been set up following recommendations made in the Portas Review to revive high streets.
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InterviewQ&A: Local government minister Mark Prisk on Portas, rates and Sunday trading
Housing minister Mark Prisk today unveiled support for 300 towns not selected to become Portas Pilots. Retail Week quizzes Prisk on town centres, business rates and Sunday trading hours.
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NewsTown Teams to receive extra Government support
More than 300 towns that were not selected as Portas Pilots are to receive funding and support from the Government.
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OpinionComment: Has the Portas review made a difference to our high streets?
Almost a year has rolled by since the Portas review was published and I wonder if anything has been achieved.
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OpinionComment: Retailers must adapt and change to survive
It is absolutely futile trying to save the high street or the ‘traditional retailer’, or in fact any retailer, be it multiple or independent, with a flawed product strategy and trading execution.
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NewsSecondary retail parks will follow the high street into decline warns former Focus boss
Former Focus and Wickes boss Bill Grimsey has warned that secondary retail parks are destined to go the same way as the high street and become ghost towns.
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NewsPortas questions Government commitment to the high street
Mary Portas has questioned the Government’s commitment to the high street and town centre improvement proposals she has set out.
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OpinionComment: Property’s change of pace
In terms of retail property, 2012 has been a year of extremes.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How to overcome retail property challenges
As tenants, landlords and local authorities continue to grapple with myriad challenges still facing high street retail, Retail Week Property talks to some experts about what steps need to be taken to overcome them, and how the future of the high street might look.
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OpinionComment: Portas must encourage high street retailers to target local customers online
“Erosion, neglect and mismanagement” has led the British high street to the point of extinction, according to Mary Portas, but she’s overlooking a very simple truth.
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NewsNew housing minister Mark Prisk set to take on Portas responsibilities
Former business minister Mark Prisk is set to take on responsibility for the Portas Review after being handed the new housing minister brief as part of the Prime Minister’s ministerial reshuffle.
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News£5.5m Government funding to be unlocked for 392 town teams
Town teams not chosen as Portas Pilots can next month apply for a share of £5.5m put aside by the Government to help kick start efforts to revive their struggling high streets.
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NewsSmall shops call for 'supermarket tax' to revive high street
Small shops have called on government to implement a ‘supermarket tax’ to levy large grocers and out-of-town shopping centres to buoy the high street.
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AnalysisRelaxation of pop-up restrictions: What do retailers need to know?
The Government is preparing to relax high street planning rules to make it easier for retailers to open pop-up shops in empty premises.