High street vacancy rates

One in eight high street shop premises lay vacant last month, the latest retail figures show.The town centre vacancy rate for Scotland was 12% in January, up from 11.1% in October and above the UK

U.K.’s Largest Retailers Call For Reform As High Street Vacancy Rates Hit Four-Year High the number of empty retail units within UK town centres is at a four-year high, with a vacancy rate Are high-streets coming to an end? The Local Data Company has released a report detailing empty shops across the country's high streets. It looks at vacancy rates in town centres, which are The vacancy rate was 10.3% in July, its highest level since January 2015, according to the British Retail Consortium and Springboard survey. Footfall also fell by 1.9% in July, the worst July performance for seven years. Diane Wehrle, Springboard insights director, One in eight high street shop premises lay vacant last month, the latest retail figures show. The town centre vacancy rate for Scotland was 12% in January, up from 11.1% in October and above the UK average of 9.9%. Footfall dropped both on the high street (3.7%), The national town centre vacancy rate climbed to a four-year high of 10.2% last month, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) vacancies monitor. The vacancy rate has risen in each of the last four quarters to give the highest reading since April 2015, up from 9.9% three months ago.

12 Aug 2019 One in 10 shops empty as vacancy rate in Britain's town centres hits highest level in four years. High street. Town centre vacancy rates have 

12 Aug 2019 The vacancy rate was 10.3% in July, its highest level since January 2015, according to the British Retail Consortium and Springboard survey. 13 May 2019 National town centre rate grows to 10.2%, according to new BRC-Springboard data. // Footfall slips by 0.5% in April. // High street footfall down  12 Aug 2019 // High street footfall down 2.7%, shopping centres down 3.7%, but retail park footfall up 1.2%. The number of empty retail units in town centres  14 Aug 2019 Call For Reform As High Street Vacancy Rates Hit Four-Year High to change tax rules in order to boost the country's struggling High Street. 12 Aug 2019 One in 10 shops empty as vacancy rate in Britain's town centres hits highest level in four years. High street. Town centre vacancy rates have  26 Dec 2019 Successful cities like York and Leeds have vacancy rates of 6.2 per cent and nine per cent respectively, while in Harrogate the rate is just under 

12 Aug 2019 Nationally, the vacancy rate is the worst for four years, according the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard research. Promoted 

agree on is that the high street of the future will be very different to the cloned parades of the 1980s. While vacancy rates in certain towns and cities are.

U.K.’s Largest Retailers Call For Reform As High Street Vacancy Rates Hit Four-Year High the number of empty retail units within UK town centres is at a four-year high, with a vacancy rate

11 Nov 2019 However, there are exceptions to this rule: Belgium and the UK both have double digit vacancy rates. Footfall numbers show which High Streets  12 Aug 2019 According to the data, the national town vacancy rate increased slightly The three-month average decline for high street footfall is 4.0 percent. been assessed, ranging from neighbourhood high streets and small towns, Note that vacancy rate alone is a poor metric for retail centre health – new projects 

But shop vacancy rates across the UK have not improved, operating costs continue to rise and many high streets are struggling to attract the footfall levels needed 

15 Feb 2011 the towns with the highest retail vacancy rates in the country as a study shows more than one in four shops stand empty on their High Streets. 23 Jun 2015 Investment in UK Retail Property rises but Vacancy Rates remain high Despite the problems plaguing British high streets, that sector of the  5 Jun 2018 The LDC found that the overall vacancy rate last year rose for the first time since it started measuring it. But this was only a marginal 0.2% rise,  15 May 2015 Online shopping eats into traditional retailing markets as High Street vacancy rates rise. Difficult trading conditions and changes in the  Vacancy rates remain high, with a total vacancy rate of. 11.5%. Some areas experiencing vacancy rates over 25%. • Average annual footfall change decreased by  significance. 4. Retail vacancy increases in recession, but all current and arising vacancies are A White Paper has set out proposals for supplementary business rates. The the attractiveness and activity in high streets (CLG, 2009). Money 

12 Aug 2019 One in 10 shops empty as vacancy rate in Britain's town centres hits highest level in four years. High street. Town centre vacancy rates have  26 Dec 2019 Successful cities like York and Leeds have vacancy rates of 6.2 per cent and nine per cent respectively, while in Harrogate the rate is just under  27 Sep 2019 The retail vacancy rate peaked at 13% in the first half of 2019, new increasing pressure from online, and a fall in high street footfall have