Empty shops, vacant units and what the councils say about the town centre's high streets, including empty property relief on business rates.
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What is and isn't published
Which shops stand empty isn't published as open data. Planning applications that change a shop's use are on the record, and the councils' papers sometimes give totals for empty property relief on business rates; both are linked from here.
Business premises in planning, by wardOpen Hastings. Every planning application on the record that names business premises, such as a change of use or a shopfront
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or text contains one of these words: “empty shops”, “empty shop”, “empty units”, “vacant units”, “vacant shops”, “vacant shop units”, “town centre vacancy”, “town centre vacancies”, “vacancy rate”, “vacancy rates”, “empty property relief”, “high streets”, “High Streets Task Force”. We match whole words and
ignore case. A matching word doesn't mean the document is mainly about this
topic, so each entry shows the word that matched and links to the council's
own document.