Retail Planning web links
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| www.farmersmarkets.net |
National Association of Farmers’ Markets
web site. Lists of markets, traders etc are given. A retail health check
involving measures such as footfall is being recorded by the organisation. |
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| www.farma.org.uk |
The National Farmers’ Retail and Markets
Association web site. Sector briefings are available. |
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| www.renewal.net |
This web site acts as a forum on
regeneration topics inviting contributions on what actually works. A search
for retail entries on the site is the easiest way to find relevant material. |
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| www.ehtf.org.uk |
The English Historic Towns Forum web
site gives information about current interests and activities of the group.
The organisation has a Retail Working Group whose activities are entered.
Gwyn Jones has a report which reviews retail guidance as part of the
consultation process on PPG6. |
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| www.communities.gov.uk |
This site gives official government
department material on planning.
The statistics section of the web site is: www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/
planningbuilding/planningstatistics
the State of the Cities Database (including town centres and retail cores) is
at: www.socd.communities.gov.uk/socd
Neighbourhood
Statistics are at www.statistics.gov.uk/neighbourhood |
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| www.defra.gov.uk |
The government Department for the
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs web site. It includes regulations for
farm shops and farmers’ markets, advice for retail businesses etc. A review
of retail services is published from time to time on the web site. |
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| www.bids-scotland.com |
The BIDs web
site for
Scotland
has
details of legislation, projects in
Scotland
and leaflets on topics
such as key questions, town centres and multiple retailers. |
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| www.direct.gov.uk |
This site provides the most direct links
to all local authority planning office sites. |
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| www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk |
The Planning Inspectorate web site
includes both links to the planning portal section of the site and also
on-line copies of the Planning Inspectorate Newsletter |
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| www.planningportal.gov.uk |
This is the planning portal site
operated by the Planning Inspectorate. It acts as an on-line advisory service
to link users to progress on planning decisions. It also includes recent
parliamentary questions, technical advice notes and planning guidance notes
for
England
and
Wales
. |
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| www.statistics.gov.uk |
The government statistical web site has
on-line access to almost all the government statistical publications
including the Family Expenditure Survey, Labour Market Trends, Retail Sales
Monitor and the Annual Business Inquiry. |
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| www.imrg.org |
This is
the e-retail industry web site. Most of the detailed statistics are by
subscription only. |
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| www.livingstreets.org.uk |
The Pedestrians Association post reports
and findings relating to the use of streets by pedestrians and proposals to
improve streets. The site includes material on the implications of congestion
charging for example. An image library is available on the site. |
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| www.acs.org.uk |
The Association of Convenience Stores
web site includes the various comments on changes in policy expressed by its
membership. |
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| www.tescopoly.org |
This is the anti-Tesco lobbyist web
site. |
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| www.scotland.gov.uk/planning |
This is the section of the Scottish
Government web site concerned with planning issues in
Scotland
. |
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| www.business-strategies.co.uk |
This is the section of the Experian web
site which includes GOAD plan information. Experian GOAD have for many years
produced town plans showing retail premises. These used to be available from
UK
copyright
libraries. As a printed version is only now produced to order these are no
longer deposited in copyright libraries. However a move has been made to make
deposit of electronic material a legal deposit obligation. Shop counts are
available under Shop*Point. Experian now owns Footfall as well (www.footfall.com). The new True Touch segmentation system
is outlined on the site. Retail Market Spotlight gives the broad regional
breakdown of the annual retail rankings. The site also includes information
on retail outlets in
Europe. |
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| www.brc.org.uk |
The British Retail Consortium site has
no particular section on retail planning matters. However it includes key
figures for the retail industry and also parliamentary questions relating to
retailing. Other publications available on the web site include the four year
update Towards Retail Sustainability (2006). |
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| www.planning.haynet.com |
This remains the most accessible and
informative site. It has a very useful news section as well as a substantial
archive of recent articles and items from Planning. There are also extensive
listings of links to documents referred to in planning although not all of
these are actually active. |
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| www.nrpf.org |
The National Retail Planning Forum web
site highlights the activities of the organisation and gives an outline of
the current publications available. Some publications are available on-line. |
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| http://bigboxtoolkit.com |
A
US
web site which campaigns against big box retailing but which includes key
studies to illustrate impacts on jobs and incomes of big box retailing. |
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| www.bcsc.org.uk |
This is the British Council of Shopping
Centres site. It is a members-oriented site giving information about the
organisation. Newcomers can have a free trial permitting them to visit the
site five times. Responses to current policy debates are available on the
site. Executive summaries of publications are available online. |
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| www.irs.stir.ac.uk |
This is
the web site for the Institute for Retail Studies at the
University of
Stirling.
The Institute has been at the forefront of retail research. The site provides
a basic description and details contact points as well as some links to other
commercial and academic retail sites. |
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| www.csrs.ac.uk |
The centre for the Study of Retailing in
Scotland
web site includes datasets, retail trends, bibliographic data and
publications. |
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| www.cior.com |
The Corporate Intelligence web site
gives details about Mintel publications. |
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| www.cbre.com |
This site combines the former CBHillier Parker and Richard Ellis sites but it does not
include the wealth of on-line material on the former CBHillier Parker web site. It includes reports on the UK Shopping Centre Investment
Market, Out of Town Retail Investment, Shopping Centres in the
Pipeline, Retail Sales Monitor and UK Retail Briefing. New in 2007
are reports on Grocery Outlets in the Pipeline and Retail Warehouse
Parks in the Pipeline. There are similar publications on European
retailing. |
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| www.virsa.org |
the Village Rural Shops Association site
has case studies of shop schemes and lists of publications on rural shop
issues. The quarterly newsletter is available online. |
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| www.towns.org.uk |
This site is the site for Action for
Market Towns and gives details of existing and completed work. Back issues of
the newsletter are available on-line. |
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| www.civictrust.org.uk |
This gives information on the Civic
Trust and their responses to developments in urban planning. Recent studies
have focused on the evening economy in town centres. |
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| www.igd.com |
This is the site for the
Institute of
Grocery Distribution. Current
publications and some news are given on the site. Important IGD publications
include the annual lists of grocery stores organised by store operator, size
and location. Weekly analyses are held on-line and performance indices for
major retailers are available. The links section includes most major food
retailer sites. |
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| www.lga.gov.uk |
The Local Government Association web
site provides information on the association and its briefings to government
commissions and inquiries. |
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| www.verdict.co.uk |
The Verdict site gives summaries of
recent reports. These include neighbourhood retailing, out of town retailing,
the high street, the series on how
Britain
shops for different product categories
and where
Britain
shops
(supermarkets and department stores)
UK
shopping habits. The site also
gives samples of news reports published by Verdict. |
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| www.yell.co.uk |
The Yellow Pages web site is a starting
point for the location of retail enterprises by postcode. These can be listed
and location maps of individual stores are available for postcodes. |
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| www.rtpi.org.uk |
The web
site for the Royal Town Planning Institute giving information on the
organisation's activities and resources as well as details of meetings. A
good search facility is available and references to articles in Planning and
RTPI responses to various planning issues are listed. |
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| www.atcm.org |
The Association of Town Centre
Management site includes a range of useful material on town centre management
issues. The newsletter of the Association of Town Centre Management is also
available on-line. The site also holds the Directory of Managed Shopping
Centres but this is available only to members of the Association of Town
Centre Management. |
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| www.templeton.ox.ac.uk |
The
Templeton
College,
Oxford,
web site gives details about the retail research work of
Templeton
College.
It gives information on current research publications. European Retail Digest
can be obtained on-line but by subscription only, although article titles are
available. |
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| www.scottishfarmersmarkets.co.uk |
For
Scotland
this site provides
details of when markets take place and where and the stall holders at
different markets. |
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| www.tcpa.org.uk |
The Town and Country Planning
Association site has responses to government consultation papers on planning
issues. It also includes a section on press releases. |
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| www.accessibleretail.co.uk |
This is the site for the British Council
for Out of Town Retail. It has newsletters and on-line publications on key
issues concerning PPG6 with an out of town perspective. It also publishes
conference papers from the organisation's annual conference. |
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| www.collierscre.com |
The Colliers Erdman site features some
useful reports on retailing on retail rents by region across the
UK
.
These can be downloaded from the web site. The
London retail rent map is available for
2007. |
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| www.oft.gov.uk |
Office of Fair Trading web site. |
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| www.competition-commission.org.uk |
Competition Commission web site. The
publications, evidence and reports relating to the investigation on grocery
retailing area available. |
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| www.bitc.org.uk |
Business in the Community is pursuing
work on retail led investment in under served markets. Publications, reports
and progress updates are available on the web site. |
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| www.nabma.com |
The National Association of British
Market Authorities web site includes their current newsletter. W3hich
outlines the work the organisation does in supporting markets. |
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| www.ukbids.org |
The UK BIDS web
site includes details about how BIDs operates, factsheets, legislation and case studies. |
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| www.planninginlondon.com |
Website of the London Planning & Development Forum, which represents the private and government sectors involved with development and planning in the capital. Selected articles from their journal Planning in London, planning performance data and a contacts directory are freely available.
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| www.planningofficers.org.uk |
The Planning Officers Society website contains much useful news and comment on planning policy developments as well as a full programme of events accessible to all users, with more material for POS members.
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| www.pas.gov.uk |
The Planning Advisory Service website aims to stimulate and support self-sustaining improvement within local planning authorities. It includes many useful tools and training materials, as well as guidance and examples of good practice from different councils across England.
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