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How have coronavirus and lockdown impacted online shopping in cities?
Online spend has increased everywhere, but figures offer hope to traditional bricks and mortar.
Is the business rates relief system fair?
Senior Analyst Kathrin Enenkel on why the current web of business rates reliefs should be abolished.
Fix business rates to help northern firms back on their feet after lockdown
The business rates burden falls disproportionately on Northern England and is a barrier to levelling up. Andrew Carter calls on the Chancellor to reform the system.
Going Dutch: What can the Netherlands teach us about business rates reform?
Change can be hard. Changing something as complex as the business rates system is no exception to this - but the Dutch experience shows it is not only possible but also well worth it.
Why city centres can survive Covid-19
Paul Swinney argues that high streets and city centres will adapt, as they always have done, to the challenge of Covid-19.
Lessons from the first lockdown: What will November’s rules do to city centres?
A look back at the first national lockdown as England begins a second one.
Planning for the Future — White Paper Consultation
Ending the planning system’s rationing of homes is essential to end England’s systemic shortage of housing.
The future of the planning system in England
Ending the planning system’s rationing of homes through its discretionary granting of planning permissions is essential to end England’s systemic shortage of housing, and the housing crises in the most unaffordable cities and large towns.
Centre for Cities responds to the Planning White Paper
Centre for Cities has responded to two important consultations for the White Paper on planning reform within England.