Plymouth City Council is ahead of the majority of local authorities in launching a strategy to support the city centre’s high street retailers according to a report released by former Wickes chief executive Bill Grimsey.
Plymouth has already begun plans to implement a free wi-fi system for use on the high street, one of the key recommendations of the report published today.
The former chief of chain stores Wickes and Iceland has claimed that 20,000 independent shops in the UK are at risk of closing, in an alternative report into the high street to be published this week.
Bill Grimsey has criticised a government report and high street rescue strategy overseen by 'Queen Of Shops", Mary Portas, as "little more than a PR stunt". Mr Grimsey has compiled an...
