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The resistible rise of Ghost Town Britain
and old newspapers that afflicts so many town centres in North America. Various factors seem ... and old newspapers that afflicts so many town centres in North America. ... Back in 2002, nef published a report called Ghost Town Britain , which warned ...
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Supermarkets, shopping centres and the death of small shops
[...] an interesting post that explains how out-of-town shopping centres and grocery stores have made small shops ... by conventional regeneration is the over-supply of heavily subsidised shopping centres. None Many of them, like the new Westfield shopping centre that now ...
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Clone Town Britain
fashion outlets. Many town centres that have undergone substantial regeneration have lost their sense ... Shopping_Trolleys_from_Clone_Town ... town' to describe a phenomenon which is transforming British high streets. Real local shops have been ...
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Clone Town Britain 2010: High street diversity still on endangered list
41 per cent of UK towns are clone towns and a further 23 per cent are on the verge of becoming clone towns, according to the widest ever Clone Town survey results released today by leading independent ... . The nef report, Re-imagining the High Street: Escape from Clone Town Britain , also brands ...
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Clone Town Britain survey launched to discover if Britain is losing its identity
of their town centres. The survey is launched with a report, Clone Town Britain: the loss of local identity ... local authorities can veto any new shopping centre or supermarket over a given size The town ... A new survey to reveal how far Britain has gone towards becoming a nation of clone towns is launched ...
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Clone Town Britain survey: results reveals national identity crisis
centres across the country. By contrast, a home town has a high street that retains its individual ... per cent of UK towns are clone towns, a further 26 per cent are under threat Clone Town ... foundation) reveals for the first time how far Britain has gone to becoming a nation of clone towns ...
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Ghost Town Britain: one community pharmacy a day could go under new rules
Ghost towns update warns of loss of essential front line health services in changes to licensing rules ... the New Economics Foundation, Ghost Town Britain: A lethal prescription , released today, Wednesday 5 ... to those that will provide a “necessary or desirable” service for a given local area, large out of town ...
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Two tales of a city
nef 's latest report on 'clone towns', Reimagining the High Street , clearly touched ... with residents and students who want to protect the town from this title. It is a remarkable place. My first few ... was cobbled streets, gothic arches, green lawns and black railings. It is undeniably a very beautiful town ...
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Beware the security guard state
owned and run by property companies. These clone-town centres, lined with chain stores ... , these little Singapores which are taking over so many of our town and city centres, are places where civil ... Shopping centre came under attack. By middle-aged librarians . A trio of them in fact, handing out ...
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Localism needs local banks
. Or their monstrous call centres. If we wanted to change the opening hours of our local hospital cafe, we had ... of localism, unless we split up monopolistic corporates. No localism without tackling clone towns. No localism if all the economic decisions about our towns are taken in boardrooms in the USA. Most ...
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