Funding for ailing High Streets
High streets with boarded up shop fronts and lacking essentials such as butchers, grocers and bakeries could benefit from a Government £150 million cash injection.
More details on the High Streets Strategy, including how funding will be allocated to specific places, will be announced in the coming months.
The loss of the last pub in an area will be banned to prevent the loss of the last community facility of that kind.
There will be rules to tackle the proliferation of betting shops on high streets.
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