Found: Galpin MSc FIPM; a member of the Timpson Panel on the Future of High Streets, past Cabinet member for Town

Found: The UK’s high streets are facing significant challenges, particularly in small towns where town centres

Found: University, which brings together academic researchers interested in the future of high streets and town

Found: These issues have been decades in the making and are most obvious in high streets and town centres.

Found: -Many high streets and town centres lack effective place leadership due to a lack of skills and local

Found: Between 2013 and 2018, on average English and Welsh town centres lost an estimated 8% of their shops

Found: Community-Power High Streets: How Community Businesses will build town centres fit for the future.

Found: Problems are currently felt in boarded up shops and run down town centres.

Found: Summary It is important to recognise that our high streets and town centres have always evolved,

Found: How can transport connectivity be improved to facilitate better access to high streets and town centres

Found: developments without planning permission, bypassing fair scrutiny of their potential impacts on town

Found: The Design Council’s response draws from our extensive work with high streets and town centres.

Found: The report “Successful town centres” (see source [1] in list of references below) argues that

Found: Work Work is essential to town centres - despite Covid and the changes it brought, people still

Found: and Alakeson, V. (2019) Take Back the High Street Putting communities in charge of their own town centres

Found: centre use which requires planning permission supports the vitality and viability of our network of town

Found: Summary and key messages Local councils play an important role in supporting high streets, town centres

Found: We are a team of academics researching issues relating to town centres and changes occurring in

Found: The acceleration of investment initiatives into town centres through levelling up and regeneration

Found: identify varying levels of shopping centres including Important Local Parades, Local, District and Town

Found: To effectively transform and support high streets and town centres, we must stop viewing them as places

Found: is the Hub to enable diversification of services and further draw people into high streets and town

Found: connectivity How can transport connectivity be improved to facilitate better access to high streets and town

Found: So, as we look ahead to town centres/ high streets, and with declining footfall, we need to explore

Found: unique, creative talents of our nation’s young people to a wide and varied range of high streets, town

Found: Britain’s town centres: From resilience to transition. J. Urban Regen.

Found: How can transport connectivity be improved to facilitate better access to high streets and town

Found: uploads/2023/05/Power-To-Change- Community-powered-high-streets-how-community-businesses-will-build-town-centres

Found: General comments The health of our high streets and town centres is a hugely important topic for

Found: engagement with young people, as Gen Zs often do not feel a strong attachment to their high streets and town

Found: HSC0026 - High streets in towns and small cities High Street: How our town centres can bounce back from

Found: Civic societies play an important role in supporting and strengthening high streets and town centres

Found: Out of town centres have thrived because they are so easily accessible by private transport.

Found: Civic societies play an important role in supporting and strengthening high streets and town centres

Found: How can transport connectivity be improved to facilitate better access to high streets and town centres

Found: How can transport connectivity be improved to facilitate better access to high streets and town centres

Found: ATCM was founded in 1991 to support the proactive management of town centres and high streets and

Found: Q10 How can transport connectivity be improved to facilitate better access to high streets and town

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

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of programmes funded under (1) the Levelling Up Fund, (2) the Towns Fund, and (3) the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, in addressing regional socio-economic divides across the UK.

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

The UK Government is committed to levelling up across the whole of the United Kingdom. As part of a wide range of policies and interventions, we are investing over £15 billion in a suite of complementary Levelling Up projects across the UK to help grow the economy, create jobs, redevelop local amenities, improve transport, provide skills training, and support local businesses.

The department plans to complete process, impact, and value for money evaluations on these funds. These evaluations will help improve effectiveness and efficiency of local growth funding.

271 bids have been awarded funding from our multi-billion-pound Levelling Up Fund, investing in infrastructure that improves everyday life for local residents across the UK. The published (attached) Levelling Up Fund Impact Evaluation Scoping Report sets out how the impact of the Fund will be estimated at the programme and project levels and at different geographies.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund, worth £2.5 billion, is focused on overcoming deep-seated geographical inequalities, with investment in communities building pride in place, supporting high quality skills training, employment and productivity growth, and increasing life chances. Details of the UKSPF Evaluation Strategy (attached) are set out here: UK Shared Prosperity Fund: evaluation - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The department has also committed £2.35 billion worth of Town Deals and £830 million of Future High Streets Funding across 170 high streets, town centres and local communities in England via the Towns Fund. Projects are now in delivery, and the funding has already provided a much-needed boost for town centres and local high streets. Details of the Towns Fund Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy (attached) are set out here: Towns Fund monitoring and evaluation strategy.

Found: The effect of the development on the vitality of town centres ; 5 25.

Found: Also how much this has affected the rise in antisocial behaviour in City / Town centres since being introduced.While