Rishi Sunak has promised to reduce the number of boarded-up shops on high streets by 2025 if he wins his Tory leadership bid, enabling local authorities to quickly seize and repurpose empty commercial ...

vice chairman of Retail UK and EMEA said that among the reasons some shopping locations have been 'held back' in the rankings are empty units 'as high street chains and independents alike have ...

there’s a lot of rundown spaces, especially along Flinders St,” he said. “When you walk down the street and see buildings that have been empty for 15 years and look like no one has been in ...