Found: and/or customers ensuring development avoids over-concentration of hot food takeaways in existing town

Found: As construction companies do not rely on footfall for their business, their locations are out of town

Found: Town centres and high streets across Wales are diverse, varying significantly by socio- economic makeup

Found: Some of these town centres and town councils actually have wi-fi data to prove that they are busier

Found: of experts (Example: KPI 1.1 – increase in the number of previously unengaged high streets and town

Found: centres.

Found: In November 2023 both Bolton and Leigh town centres were awarded millions in Levelling Up funding4

Found: So all the food stores started to deliver a new concept for town centres.

Found: report on town centres.

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask His Majesty's Government, following Asda's recent announcement about developing a town centre in London, what steps they are taking to support supermarket chains’ initiatives involving mixed-use developments that include housing.

Answered by Baroness Swinburne - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

This Government strongly encourages the re-use of suitable brownfield land as set out in our National Planning Policy Framework. Making the most effective use of brownfield land, including through mixed use developments, will support the provision of the homes we need, and is key to regenerating our high streets and town centres, supporting economic growth in the hearts of our towns and cities and maximising the use of existing infrastructure.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many high street businesses in (a) Wellingborough constituency, (b) Northamptonshire and (c) England have closed in each of the last five years; and what plans he has for business rates in the next five years.

Answered by Gareth Davies - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

Detailed information on the closure of high street business is not held in the form requested. Statistics on company insolvency is available here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/bulletins/businessdemography/2022

The government is aware that the high street faces long-term challenges and is committed to supporting the businesses that make our high streets and town centres successful.

At Autumn Statement 2023, the government announced a package of business rates support worth £4.3 billion over the next five years to support small businesses and the high street, including extending the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) relief scheme at 75 per cent, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2024-25.

This support builds on the previous temporary 75 per cent RHL and 50 per cent RHL scheme announced at Autumn Budget 2022 and Autumn Statement 2021 respectively, as well as the unprecedented £16 billion of business rates relief provided to the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors throughout the pandemic.

Any future decisions regarding the tax system will be taken in line with the normal Budget process.

Found: centres successful . 4 The Government is delivering a range of programmes to support the revival

Found: A narrative explaining the i nvestment themes (safety and security, high streets, regeneration and town

Found: content Collection Long-Term Plan for Towns Explore the topic High streets and town

Found: High Street Rental Auctions We are committed to making sure our town centres and high

Found: , the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is breathing new life into once-bustling town

Found: Policy BCS2 sets out theapproach to the city centre. 4.7.9 Bristol’s 10 Town Centres cater to a wide

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