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‘Portas Plus’ plans to boost high streets

The Government has announced that it has accepted ‘virtually all’ 28 recommendations from Mary Portas in its bid to rejuvenate UK high streets and will be kick starting the ‘Portas Plus’ with a pledge of £10m to the High Street Innovation Fund. On the back of the Portas review published in December, the Government hopes that the...

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Towns fighting to be a Portas Pilot

More than 300 towns are to fight it out to become one of 12 government funded Portas’ Pilots, where each town selected will receive a share of £1 million to revitalise their high street. However the overwhelming response has led the government to offer a series of workshops to provide advice on preparing bids. These workshops, which are being...