Policy Position Statement on Town Centres & Prosperous Places
This Policy Position Statement focuses on the economic issues facing market towns in terms of the traditional high street and retail offer, and the wider local economy.
This Policy Position Statement focuses on the economic issues facing market towns in terms of the traditional high street and retail offer, and the wider local economy.
The latest essays from the policy forum: Small Towns for Tomorrow whose aim is to provide a place to debate and research issues that affect small towns.
Introduction In May 2010 Britain’s first peacetime coalition government since the 1930s was elected into power. The over-riding principles of the new government has been a drive towards decentralisation and giving more power and decision making control to the local level. Combined with an inherited debt and the need to cut spending by in the [...]
Smaller towns have always suffered during policy development because there is no currently agreed government method for statistically separating them from other urban areas.
This should be addressed as a matter of urgency.
AMT looks at the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order Briefing and what its review could mean for small towns.
Action for Market Towns welcomes the government’s announcement to axe red tape for retailers.