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5 steps to ... dealing with empty shops

Stuart Watson, Regeneration & Renewal, 11 May 2009

1. Use window space. The problems of growing numbers of empty high street shops was addressed in a recent Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) report.

It suggests ways to combat vandalism and improve the look of town centres, for example by using vacant shop windows to display local information. In Chelmsford, a large-scale map of...

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