Our high streets and town centres have taken a massive battering this past year.
So how do we rebuild for the future, with so many more of us working from home and doing our shopping online?
Jonathan Maitland visits Stockton-on-Tees where the council is planning to demolish one of the two shopping centres which sit on its High Street.
It’s Director of Town Centre Investments Richard McGuckin sums it up:
We do have too many shops. The pandemic has only accelerated the decline of retail on the high street and we want to right size retail for Stockton with a modern compact offering.
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