All Mary Portas: High street review articles – Page 7
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NewsResponse to Portas will not be brought forward
The Government will not bring forward its response to Mary Portas’s high street review despite calls from an MP to speed up the process after a run of retail administrations in the past month.
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NewsGovernment urged to respond to Portas review
Labour MP Simon Danczuk has written to minister for housing Grant Shapps to ask him to speed up the Government’s response to Mary Portas’ high street review, which is due in the spring.
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NewsHousing minister Grant Shapps given responsibility for reviving town centres
Housing minister Grant Shapps, has been allocated responsibility for implementing retail consultant Mary Portas’ recommendations for reviving the UK’s high streets.
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OpinionOut-of-town bad, high street good?
Out of town developments do not deliver the kind of experience shoppers deserve.
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AnalysisReview of the Year 2011: 12. December
Mary Portas finally revealed her 28 recommendations to revive the high street.
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AnalysisReview of the Year 2011: 10. October
Among the headline-grabbing stories of the month was the news that Selfridges had struck a deal with Primark.
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AnalysisTown centre retail to lose share, Portas study shows
The proportion of retail sales through town centres is expected to decline significantly in the next three years, as Mary Portas attempts to reverse a “crisis” situation.
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OpinionBig retailers are acting on Portas’s best idea
If the Portas review were a high street it would look quite familiar – a cheek by jowl mix alternately appealing or a turn-off.
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NewsHammerson welcomes Portas Review
Landlord Hammerson, owner of malls including the Bull Ring, has welcomed The Portas Review into high streets.
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NewsGovernment minister to be allocated high street remit
The Government is set to allocate a minister for town centres on the back of Mary Portas’ review into the future of the high street.
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OpinionQueen Mary says high street is about more than shops
She may be dubbed the queen of shops, but one of the most striking things as Mary Portas’s unveiled her high street review today was that shops was only part of it.
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AnalysisWord Cloud: Mary Portas: High Street Review
A word cloud of the Portas review into the state of the UK high street.
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NewsPortas sets out new high street vision
Mary Portas has called for a “shift to a new, multi-functional, social high street”.
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NewsBRC welcomes efforts to tackle business rate rises and parking
Prioritising action on business rate rises and parking in the Portas Review is “exactly right”, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) believes.
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NewsLandlords embrace Portas' call for them to invest in high street
Landlords have embraced Mary Portas’ recommendation to allow them to become high street investors.
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NewsPwC questions timescale and practicality of Portas review
The timescale and practicality of implementing Mary Portas’ recommendations need to be addressed, PricewaterhouseCoopers has said in response to the Portas Review.
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NewsMaking out-of-town trading difficult will not save the high street, warns CBRE
Property giant CBRE has warned the Portas’ measures will not be sufficient to save the high street.
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NewsGovernment response to Portas review planned for Spring, reveals Cameron
Prime Minister David Cameron vowed that the Government would do “all that we can” to ensure our high streets thrive and it will respond to Mary Portas’ recommendations in the Spring.
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AnalysisMary Portas: High street review - What are your views?
What are your views on the Portas Review? Please share them in the comment section below.
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NewsPortas reveals her 28 recommendations to revive the high street
Mary Portas has revealed her 28 recommendations to revive the high street.