FLINTSHIRE Council has outlined its plans for helping revive town centres after the pandemic. Councillors were updated on the current challenges facing town centres and worked to set out regional and local responses being put in place. Niall Waller, service manager for enterprise and regeneration at Flintshire Council, said challenges for town centres that were there pre-COVID have since been accelerated. He said: “The growth of online shopping skyrocketed during the pandemic and is not likely to drop down to where it was before. We still have issues that about the remote ownership of properties – of quite large shopping centres in some towns that really are struggling for viability.