Giving more power to housing developers puts the UK's high streets at risk | Will Brett

Relaxing planning regulations will take the fate of towns and cities away from residents – and drain them of meaning
The future of the high street, we are told, is to build more homes on it. You can see the argument. Even before coronavirus, many big retailers were struggling to make rent as people increasingly turned to online shopping. Shop vacancies were rising and commercial landlords, many of them overloaded with debt and watching their share prices tumble, were wondering what to do n