High street

• UK Franchise calls for high street reform in 2019

  Mathnasium urges landlords and planning departments to modernise planning policy.

  

• Whitehall makes £50,000 available for high streets

  Communities across the country can bid for up to £50,000 to help make local areas more attractive for business, the high streets minister has announced.

  

• Crickhowell High Street named as best in the UK

  Crickhowell High Street has been announced as the winner of the Great British High Street Awards.

  

• Plans to make empty high street premises ‘community hubs’

  The communities secretary will today announce plans to support the conversion of empty high street premises into homes and community hubs.

  

• Grimsby ‘unhealthiest’ high street in Britain

  Grimsby has the ‘unhealthiest’ high street in Britain, according to a study that looks at the impact of the high street on the health of a town’s residents.