How to get the buzz back on Britain’s high streets

Summary

Readers respond to an article about the decline of town centres Sammy Gecsoyler’s report from Rotherham ( ‘It’s just vape shops, nail shops, charity shops’: can anything save the British high street?, 4 November ) tells the story in its dates. One out-of-town retail park in Britain in 1981; 385 by 1996. Parkgate opened in 1987 and MPs warned that it would disembowel towns and villages. It did. Rotherham town centre is now 24% vacant, while retail park vacancy nationally sits at 4.8%. That is not a mystery. It is 40 years of planning policy. We have since gone one step further by making home…

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