{"id":101181,"date":"2018-11-12T19:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/retail-dilemma-accelerated-high-street-store-closures-in-uk-gives-rise-to-fears-about-future-role-of-town-centres\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:03:09","slug":"retail-dilemma-accelerated-high-street-store-closures-in-uk-gives-rise-to-fears-about-future-role-of-town-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/retail-dilemma-accelerated-high-street-store-closures-in-uk-gives-rise-to-fears-about-future-role-of-town-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail dilemma: accelerated high street store closures in UK gives rise to fears about future role of town centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nBritish retailers have called for \u201cdecisive action\u201d from the government to support the battered high streets after new data showed the number of shops, pubs and restaurants lying empty has soared by more than 4,400 in the first six months of this year.<br \/>\nClosures increased by nearly 17 per cent to 24,205 across 3,000 towns, cities, retail parks and shopping centres monitored by the Local Data Company. The number of new openings of shops, restaurants, pubs and other leisure&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/2172760\/retail-dilemma-accelerated-high-street-store-closures-uk-gives-rise-fears\" target=\"_blank\">Retail dilemma: accelerated high street store closures in UK gives rise to fears about future role of town centres<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; British retailers have called for \u201cdecisive action\u201d from the government to support the battered high&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-qjX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101157,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-future-for-britains-high-streets-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":101181,"position":0},"title":"What future for Britain\u2019s high streets? | Letters","date":"November 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Readers respond to news that the number of UK shops, pubs and restaurants lying empty has soared by more than 4,400 in the first six months of this yearThe plight of retailers dominates debate about the high street (Decline of the high street gathers pace as thousands of stores\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":119461,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/crisis-in-retail-the-uk-town-centres-struggling-to-survive\/","url_meta":{"origin":101181,"position":1},"title":"Crisis in retail: the UK town centres struggling to survive","date":"December 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r With the collapse of Debenhams and Arcadia creating more empty stores, many urban centres need a new purpose\r \r Source : ft.com\r Read more...Crisis in retail: the UK town centres struggling to survive","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":150924,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cheap-plants-are-like-cheap-food-you-get-what-you-pay-for-meet-the-new-generation-of-independent-nursery-owners\/","url_meta":{"origin":101181,"position":2},"title":"\u2018Cheap plants are like cheap food, you get what you pay for\u2019: meet the new generation of independent nursery owners","date":"April 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Local, smaller shops are under threat from garden centres. 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