Labour intend to reverse the retail apocalypse but what businesses will they move into these abandoned sites? Mini cab offices, pound shops, kebab shops? Why will these businesses have any greater success than the businesses that couldn't live with the economics of the modern high street before?
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Labour's retail apocalypse
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Swindon High Street looks good to me.
A large crowd of people in hoodies kicking the boarded up windows seem to be enjoying themselves.
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A similar action was taken in Berlin.. result? Massive transformation to local communities. Various art exhibitions to pop-up clothing / designers etc coffee shops.
I don't get why the UK allows landlords to hold the high street to ransom and make the area look like an demilitarise zone.Last edited by scooterscot; 18 August 2019, 17:23."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostA similar action was taken in Berlin.. result? Massive formation to local communities. Various art exhibitions to pop-up clothing / designers etc coffee shops.
I don't get why the UK allows landlords to hold the high street to ransom and make the area look like an demilitarise zone.Comment
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Their plan to crash house prices will kill off estate agents. So then it will just be mobile phone shops.
Oh wait. They could legalize all drugs on condition they are only sold via the high street, not online. That would kill off bitcoin too.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostTheir plan to crash house prices will kill off estate agents.."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Those landlords must be raking it in from all those boarded up shops.
It's probably business rates that are too high rather than rent.Comment
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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostA similar action was taken in Berlin.. result? Massive formation to local communities. Various art exhibitions to pop-up clothing / designers etc coffee shops.
I don't get why the UK allows landlords to hold the high street to ransom and make the area look like an demilitarise zone.
There is also a huge problem with rents and leases for commercial premises. The Leasehold and Freehold law with a Landlord and Tenant is archaic. In many provincial towns, the high street freeholds are owned by the Church of England and they are quite happy to sit on empty properties to keep rents high. Empty shops owned by the C of E often have their empty shops exempt from rates.
The law at the moment is on the side of the Landlords or Freeholder, rents are based on an increase in rent which in turn is based on the highest rent in the neighbourhood and the rent is set to be the maximum that a business can stand without going bankrupt. All this can be read on the RICS website and/or by reading Landlord and Tenant books."A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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