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City centres aren't dying as a response to big-box openings; they are only changing their commercial structure, writes Maria Sanchez-Vidal. ... Read more...
21 August 2019
Traf also said that in 2015, one of the most comprehensive studies on the impact of Sunday trade on the European economy was published, published by the London Center for Economic Performance (CEP), a research... Read more...
23 November 2017
Even [Sadiq] Khan's predecessor Boris Johnson campaigned with several plans to build 55,000 new homes in London and to slow down the price increase caused by demand pressures. Up to the end of his tenure, he failed. Khan... Read more...
22 September 2016
A bad few days for the image of Britain's retail sector PARLIAMENTARY committees are normally sleepy affairs. Backbench MPs get the chance to grill the occasional bigwig. By replying to questions succinctly witnesses ty... Read more...
11 June 2016
Dr Christos Genakos, of the London School of Economics, studied the impact of decisions to ease Sunday trading rules in 30 European countries between 1999 and 2013. He found the reforms boosted net employment by 7-9 per ... Read more...
08 July 2015
Liberalisation of planning could therefore lower house prices and rents directly, and there would be a direct boost to building growth. But the real gains would come through a fall in the cost burden associated with prop... Read more...
16 September 2014
New SERC/Grantham project launched: an investigation of the Carbon Footprint of the Retail Sector LSE's Spatial Economics Research Centre and Grantham Research Institute have begun a new collaborative project expl... Read more...
27 September 2012