Swindon’s town centre is well placed to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report from national research and policy institute Centre for Cities.
In its latest economic assessment of the UK’s largest urban areas, the Centre for Cities says the town’s retail heart lost the equivalent of 28 weeks in sales, in line with the national average.
The institute has also placed Swindon in the Top 10 for town centre vacancy rates. From March 2020 to June 2021 town centre vacancies increased by 5.5 per cent. Just over 20 per cent of retail units in the town centre were vacant in June last year, says the report.
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