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    High streets 'are being failed by planning law'

    Government rejects claim by a new study that small businesses are being sacrificed to big out-of-town developments - in spite of Town Centre First policy

    Britain's beleaguered high streets are still failing despite the Government's much-vaunted Town Centre First policy, which pledged to protect small independent shopkeepers from out-of-town shopping developments, new research claims.

    The study found that more than three-quarters of new retail space approved since the national planning laws came into force last year have been located outside of town centres - exactly the opposite of what the legislation was created for. The study used a sample of 50 planning applications and found that of those approved more than 70 per cent were outside of town centres and 16 per cent were on the edge of towns.

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