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I’m not impressed with the latest offering from Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary. “Proposed Revisions to PPS6” makes me wonder if the Government has any care for the state of our town centres. The proposed revisions are hardly decisive action to stop the free-fall of the wellbeing of these centres and retail developments out of town will just hasten their demise.

Town centres are central to our communities, they need a vociferous representative body, prepared to tackle this head on and each town needs to reflect its own character and the particular aspirations of its own citizens. It has to be Home Town, not Clone Town.

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The Governemnt's proposals, at twice the size of its earlier guidance, are likley to create twice as much work as before. It recommends diversification and spreading businesses throughout our town centres,but with little understanding of what makes a centre work. Your comment is correct: we need more distinctiveness, not diversity, to make our towns attractive.