56 PROPERTY CONFERENCE


NEW VISIONS EMERGING FROM HIGH STREET LOWS


Simon Quin is executive director of the High Streets Task Force, set up by the government to lead the revitalisation of town and city centres. He is a recognised international authority on urban place management


The pandemic has accelerated the challenge the high street faces. We are seeing structural change and Covid is accelerating where we are heading.


It’s also made people realise the challenge 


  


In the past, major retailers looked to have  


Online retail and out of town growth has seen   major retailers, where the economy wasn’t 


In the last 10 years there has been a 20 per  


 are main shopping centres, where that is the  for other reasons, shopping does not have the 


Nationally we are very concerned about the  not reopened and if things don’t change, just


Simon Quin


In the future we will see a change away from    


PANEL 3 HIGH STREETS AND CITY LIVING


Gary Crompton, director at Barker Proudlove Nick Gerrard, growth and prosperity programme director at Blackpool Council John Chesworth


NICK GERRARD


 was struggling before Covid and has been  


From a Blackpool point of view, it is not    investment plan with some substantial   


It is really important that people who are trying to regenerate places, whatever their 


GARY CROMPTON


  


When it comes to business rates, the retailers we speak to talk of the complete  


   


City living is a footfall generator; it gives you  changing and with retail viability struggling, 


JOHN CHESWORTH


  health and education to expand the footfall 


It is really important this is locally led  every town in Lancashire, let alone every 


Businesses need to get involved to help shape what they want to see in their towns 


When it comes to city living we have to build properties families can live in and where 


over half of those that have don’t think they will 


 lots of businesses unable to operate and empty 


 


We’ll also see education, leisure and the arts, 


  retailing, independent outlets or smaller chains  for markets in those new pedestrian spaces that 


 owners is to think about the scale of this, to start 


At the moment the focus is on recovery, but 


We have to think about transformation that will take 10 to 20 years but it will mean we are 


We have to create centres that have green spaces and places where people can live 


A review of business rates has been a long term   business rates, as well as the landlord-tenant 


We need people to come together to plan for the future, it needs to include not just local authorities but businesses, property owners and 


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