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Empty shops summit

Artists, policy advisors, politicians and entrepreneurs are joining forces to find ways to fill vacant shops in the North West by organising an empty shops summit on 15 June. Organised by the Empty Shops Network and Sirius PR, speakers will include Dan Thompson, who led the London riots clean-up last year, and Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk....

Fashion

UK empty shops need to turn into residential

Changing the fleet of empty shops on the UK high street into residential properties could help solve the problem of escalating vacancy rates according to respected retail consultant, Jonathan De Mello, of CB Richard Ellis. De Mello, head of retail consultancy at estate proprietors, CBRE, claims that a new strategy to change the list of empty...