A reflection on the prospect for UK high streets and town centres to find a new future in a post COVID-19 world: Part three: Benchmarking While many indicators of town centre performance are biased towards retail metrics, there is still much useful data available with which to track performance.
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A reflection on the prospect for UK high streets and town centres to find a new future in a post COVID-19 world: Part two: Public sector intervention? Perhaps given this surfeit of earnest and well-intentioned scrutiny, there is a dawning realisation of the limitations of what intervention and planning can […]
These three blog posts form part of a series of articles by R3intelligence academics and researchers in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, at Northumbria University, about analysing town and city centre retail markets using GIS and big data.
R3intelligence’s business rates data model has the GIS mapping capacity to represent changes (2010 to 2017) in rateable values and stock for all business premises in England and Wales . The data model is capable of fine-grained analysis down to postcode level, revealing detailed patterns of change or stability at […]