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Valentine Quinio

What impact do local lockdowns have on city-centre footfall? We take a look at what happened in Leicester, Manchester and Aberdeen, all of which experienced restrictions over the summer.

Elena Magrini

The number of people claiming unemployment benefits continues to rise, with the biggest rises in the past month in large cities and towns in the South East.

Valentine Quinio

Overall city centre footfall rose this summer but London still has a lot of catching up to do.

Paul Swinney

People have returned to city centre shops and bars as lockdown has eased. But they haven’t responded to calls to go back to city centre offices.

Valentine Quinio

The Eat Out To Help Out scheme and good weather are benefiting seaside towns more than big cities.

Anthony Breach

The UK Government has launched major reforms for the planning system – but only within England. These reforms, which will divide all land in England into three zones (growth, renewal, and...

Anthony Breach

Last week, the Government announced the most radical reforms to the English planning system since 1947. Citing our most recent report on the planning system in the White Paper, the proposals share...

Paul Swinney

Some commentators have suggested that Covid will do in a couple of months what governments have tried to do for the last 80 years. This is very unlikely.

Elena Magrini, Kathrin Enenkel and Lahari Ramuni

Cities are using their knowledge of their local area to support people train and find a job, but the support they can provide is limited by red tape.