Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the ranking of retail’s most vibrant shopping locations, with a swing away from city centres and towards smaller commuter towns in 2021.
Beaconsfield was ranked the number-one most vibrant retail location in the Harper Dennis Hobbs (HDH) 2021 Vitality Ranking, followed by Henley-on-Thames, Tenterden and Wimbledon Village.
The annual ranking, which uses a number of metrics including change in residents’ movement and vacancy rates to rank 1,000 retail locations in the UK in vitality terms, recorded a major shift away from city-centre locations compared with pre-Covid rankings.
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