{"id":13334,"date":"2013-05-28T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=38573fd499e73ba9606ffe2f73c3ad66"},"modified":"2013-05-28T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:38:07","slug":"government-response-helping-the-high-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=13334","title":{"rendered":"Government response: Helping the high street"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A spokesman from the Department for Communities and Local Government said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We welcome the contribution to this debate from the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.retailresearch.org\/retail2018.php\">Centre for Retail Research report<\/a>. It is clear that high streets need to meet the changing needs of today\u2019s consumers in order to prosper.<\/p>\n<p>The government has supported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/policies\/improving-high-streets-and-town-centres\">27 Pilots and 330 Town Team Partners<\/a> across the country to promote innovation and joint working between councils, retailers and business.<\/p>\n<p>We have cut business rates for small shops, scrapped Whitehall guidance that pushed for higher parking charges, and the local retention of business rates now gives councils a direct financial stake in their high street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We have delivered a \u2018town centre first\u2019 planning policy, and are making it easier to get empty and redundant buildings in town centres back into productive use.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Response to Centre for Retail Research report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}