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With over a third of the shops barricaded areas hardest hit Mary Portas will work

One in seven shops on the main street are boarded up, victims of a faltering economy and long-term trends toward online and offline shopping in town, according to a report released Thursday.

In the most disadvantaged, the unemployment rate is one of three shops, with the title of the city most affected little goes to Leigh Park in Havant, near Portsmouth.

Leigh Park exceeded

Margate, who had the worst vacancy rate when searching for the last compilation. But there are some surprises. Wandsworth, South London, home of the support of bankers' bonuses, has crept into the top 10 small schools with the highest levels of vacancies in the store.

Among the major centers, Stockport and the top of the list of Blackpool, with vacancy rates of over 25%, while among medium-sized centers, the rates are almost 30% Dudley and West Bromwich.

The study, led by local business data highlights the challenge facing Mary Portas, was given the task of drafting a plan to rejuvenate the main streets of Britain . They must report to the government in the fall.

Consumers

main streets have declined in recent years, preferring to lead to centers outside the city, and the investigation of the LDCs, said that the great land which are themselves doing well, while others suffer.

But buyers have also been strengthened in spending, with many challenges wage freezes or job losses and inflation continues to run ahead.

For retailers, the only crumb of comfort in this report is that the growth of high vacancy rates stalled the street: the first half of 2011 was just as bad as - rather than the worst - 2010.

behind the left foot by moving to places outside the city are many centers of the north, where unemployment rates are higher among retailers. The north-south divide is widening. The northwest and northeast have vacancy rates the highest, while the South East and London have the lowest. According to WFP, the downtown vacancy rate rose to just over 5% at the end of 2008 to 14.5% in the one in seven stores shutters.

Those who have an important role in the main streets have a different opinion, however.
"for each square foot of selling space in new urban centers, four square meters are planned outside the city," said Shane Brennan, director of public affairs of the Association of Convenience Stores. "The ability to create stores outside the cities was made possible by a combination of planning rules confusing and misapplied, developers of the power and the weakness of local councils. Unless urgent action we see in our high streets miss a latest wave of building out of town retail threat to withdraw from sale the heart of our communities. "

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