hope so!

Lots of city centre retail and office space is going to become permanently vacant over the next 6-18 months...

The problem will be that developers will all be chasing the high end market, when what we need is lots more cheap (but less profitable) housing.

(*POLITICS ALERT*) There is a very attractive housing policy here for someone to grasp and run with. Pump some of the HS2/Trident/magic money tree money into that and you could put some serioius dents in the housing shortage, social hosuing provision, housing rough sleepers etc etc. And at the same time revitalise city centres, independent retail, etc etc.

Posted By: CWC on June 26th 2020 at 10:18:22

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Intu about to collapse. Did find it odd why we needed two shopping centres. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 26, 07:24:12
- High St has changed (General Chat) - inutero, Jun 26, 07:48:07
  - Loss of anchor stores a big problem, eg John Lewis in intu Watford (General Chat) - watfordcanary, Jun 26, 09:59:32
  - Never really thought Nodge is big enough to have two shopping centres. Perhaps... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 26, 08:23:35
    - Norwich actually 11th biggest retail centre in the country (General Chat) - Knitted Jesus, Jun 26, 08:55:02
    - I doubt Castle Mall is the reason for their collapse, they own quite a lot of (General Chat) - Jim, Jun 26, 08:38:22
      - Father was saying it may become full circle, ie housing in the City and a butcher, baker (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 26, 09:35:24
        
        hope so! (General Chat) - CWC, Jun 26, 10:18:22
        
        Yes although the fact a lot of it is underground makes that difficult. Maybe some of it (General Chat) - Jim, Jun 26, 10:12:45
        
        Concert hall/music venue as well possibly? (n/m) (General Chat) - Jim, Jun 26, 10:13:58
        
        Intu owns Chapelfield, not Castle Mall (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Jun 26, 10:18:42
        
        Ah right, thought it was the other way around. Thats shame as its the nicer of the two (n/m) (General Chat) - Jim, Jun 26, 14:57:43
        
        Still got a gleaming car park, could convert all the shops into flats for the homeless (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 26, 10:10:10
        
        You always make me smile Mr Tombs!!!! (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jun 26, 11:27:04

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