How to revive the high street with education

How to revive the high street

We have had a front row seat in the decimation of the high street. While running learning centres provides some level of proof to the pressures causing the demise of the high street.

What Government should be doing to help relieve the high street.

Change the planning laws to encourage more housing while shrinking the high street.

There are too many empty commercial units:

Potential Solution: Change the planning laws to encourage more housing while shrinking the high street to reduce excess capacity. With education, like Exam Centres being a sensible high street occupier.

Philip Reynolds from FRP Advisory who advises on CVAs goes onto explain: Careful curation of the high street works well with a unified approach by the Local Authority and the Landlords but it suited to area where higher local disposable income will support such an approach.

However, in lower income areas careful curation in isolation will not work as there will not be the demand. The solution in most high streets in the UK will be is to allow residential use to take up excess capacity.

This will improve the street scene and improve footfall and turn brown-field sites into much needed housing

Further, this would be aligned with the UK Governments policy for vastly increasing housing.

This approach provides a solution helps to solve two challenges. The high street revival and increased local suitable housing stock.

While here at the Exam House we strongly believe that education and exams are exceptionally well suited to be on the high street.

While we push on with our GCSE, A level and now ACCA exams.