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   Ross Miller wrote:

  The issues with town centres are multiple and include (roughly in order of impact)
  
  a) changing shopping patterns - on-line, out of town malls, home deliveries etc.
  b) landlords - excessive rent demands, failing to maintain/modernise premises etc.
  c) lack of free/low cost parking
  d) footfall - falling numbers in town centres caused by the above
  e) poor street scene, physical layout and lack of events discourages people to come to town centres especially if they do not need to shop
  
  Local authorities can make a modest difference to c & e and communities can make a difference by choosing to shop local making the effort to meet people to socialise in town centres and press their local authority to put events on etc. they could also develop a neighbourhood plan that would inform the local authorites planning and licencing decisions.

  
  
  The same issues which have been produced as reasons why Dover high street is in such decay for many years however I can't help noticing that most other Kent high streets are doing far, far better.

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