After the retail apocalypse, what next for the high street?

Out-of-town shopping centres and online giants decimated our town centres – what can local spaces still offer that the internet can’t?It’s not as if no one saw it coming. The decline of physical shopping, the business of getting yourself to an actual place and receiving actual goods from an actual person in return for actual cash, has been predicted – prematurely, as it turned out — since the end of the last century. It was not news in 2011 when David Cameron’