Changes on the High Street
24-05-2020, 12:11
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Re: Changes on the High Street
I had to go into my town centre to get some toiletries for my mum.
Facing the car park in our shopping centre there is a Wilco on the left and Tesco on the right. The flooring has 2-metre markings, the Tesco one has to go around a small independent café/bakers which is take away only (boy did the sausage roll taste gorgeous after 2 months).
Even though 95% of the shops are closed inside the centre they have put a 1 way system in place which has arrow on the floor, but I saw people ignoring them.
During this time as shops are closed I have bought stuff online (£450 since lockdown)
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24-05-2020, 12:37
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Re: Changes on the High Street
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
There is a major change in the way we do things happening right now. The coronavirus emergency measures have expedited this process as people have embraced working at home and online shopping.
What will replace the offices and shops is the big debate. I think shopping centres will be replaced by leisure facilities, more estate agents, travel shops and fast food outlets, restaurants, bars, craft places, tech showcase and retail shops, mobile phone shops and gift shops. Bakeries, butchers, sweet shops, etc may make a comeback on the high street. The bigger supermarkets will continue to gravitate to out-of town facilities, leaving the smaller 'express' services in town centres and in housing estates.
As for those office blocks - I guess that really does depend on whether company bosses want to revert back to their previous way of working. They must see that they can reduce their overheads if working from home became the norm.
What the emergency measures have drawn attention to are the possibilities for the future. The question really is, do people like what they see?
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... and that would have to be after the mess described in post #388 above has been resolved.
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24-05-2020, 12:56
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Re: Changes on the High Street
It’s not just that. If/when (I view it as inevitable, but the current situation has perhaps accelerated it a decade) the working from home revolution happens suddenly commuter towns towns and some cities could find households in negative equity if it reverses the general trend of migration to cities for employment.
I live in a town where property prices are around 15-20% higher than some a few miles away because of better transport links to two major cities. If I’m working from home, or perhaps only going into the office five or six days per month - suddenly towns where the commute would be half an hour longer aren’t as unappealing as before.
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26-05-2020, 10:56
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Re: Changes on the High Street
As long as broadband speeds are good enough.
Maybe builders and going to need to rework houses to allow for home offices. If people spend more time at home are all these close builds going be as viable? People may now want more garden.
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28-05-2020, 16:48
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Re: Changes on the High Street
Virgin Media will not be reopening their high street stores & kiosks.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...ts-stores.html
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30-05-2020, 18:49
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Re: Changes on the High Street
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As long as broadband speeds are good enough.
Maybe builders and going to need to rework houses to allow for home offices. If people spend more time at home are all these close builds going be as viable? People may now want more garden.
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That would be at odds with the desire to maximise developer's profit? Have you seen the houses in Kings Barton?
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01-06-2020, 10:17
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Re: Changes on the High Street
True it will cut into profits but demand/prices are also relevant. If people don't want to buy 5 bed houses with no garden then why build them, why knock down nice big houses with grounds and build a small estate on it if there is no market? People have wanted big houses but no garden when they don't spend much time in them. Anyway this is diverting a bit from the topic - let's keep admins happy.
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01-06-2020, 11:00
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Re: Changes on the High Street
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
True it will cut into profits but demand/prices are also relevant. If people don't want to buy 5 bed houses with no garden then why build them, why knock down nice big houses with grounds and build a small estate on it if there is no market? People have wanted big houses but no garden when they don't spend much time in them. Anyway this is diverting a bit from the topic - let's keep admins happy.
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Trouble is they build these houses so far away from the High Street and then don't meet their obligation to provide convenience shopping.
See Jennets Park for details (11 years after opening they got a wretched Co-op).
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01-06-2020, 11:42
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Re: Changes on the High Street
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Trouble is they build these houses so far away from the High Street and then don't meet their obligation to provide convenience shopping.
See Jennets Park for details (11 years after opening they got a wretched Co-op).
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My sister has just bought a new house and she is fuming as Aldi have announced the building of a new store about 200 mts from her posh new house, she thought she had bought a home in a secluded little spot.
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02-06-2020, 15:04
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Re: Changes on the High Street
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Trouble is they build these houses so far away from the High Street and then don't meet their obligation to provide convenience shopping.
See Jennets Park for details (11 years after opening they got a wretched Co-op).
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
My sister has just bought a new house and she is fuming as Aldi have announced the building of a new store about 200 mts from her posh new house, she thought she had bought a home in a secluded little spot.
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Just goes to show you can't please all the people all the time.
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02-06-2020, 15:25
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Re: Changes on the High Street
Aldi (or others) dont just suddenly decide to do that on a whim, so those plans must have been known about before she bought the house.
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02-06-2020, 15:43
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Re: Changes on the High Street
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Aldi (or others) dont just suddenly decide to do that on a whim, so those plans must have been known about before she bought the house.
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No it is a recent application and has been approved,the land was supposed to be just for housing,but there are no shops nearby so i guess that's why it was approved,personally i think it's a good thing.
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02-06-2020, 16:43
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Re: Changes on the High Street
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
My sister has just bought a new house and she is fuming as Aldi have announced the building of a new store about 200 mts from her posh new house, she thought she had bought a home in a secluded little spot.
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My missus would be ecstatic. She's excited enough about a Lidl that's being built 3 miles away
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02-06-2020, 17:18
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Re: Changes on the High Street
Near our Rutland house, we've got a crappy Tesco, a shit Co-op (both 30Ksq ft stores); a usual Aldi and a usual Lidl - both highly downmarket for food..
Thank goodness for Waitrose in nearby Stamford.
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02-06-2020, 17:21
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Re: Changes on the High Street
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Near our Rutland house, we've got a crappy Tesco, a shit Co-op (both 30Ksq ft stores); a usual Aldi and a usual Lidl - both highly downmarket for food..
Thank goodness for Waitrose in nearby Stamford.
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