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Site title: Stirlingretail | Comments on retail and towns issues from Leigh Sparks, University of Stirling, with a focus on Scotland
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The updated web-based platform (Understanding Scottish Places – USP) featuring data on Scotland’s 509 towns has just been released, as highlighted in my previous post. The 2022 census underlying USP reveals that more Scots (54% of the total population of Scotland) live in towns with a pop...
Understanding Scottish Places (USP) took shape in the early 2010s. It aimed to provide a consistent space to compare towns and to kickstart discussions in those places, local authorities and others, about strategy and deve...
As noted in the last post, we ended up in Yorkshire, being based at Grosmont, a few miles inland by train from Whitby, somewhere I had ...
The middle of October saw us take a road trip to South Wales, North Wales and eventually North Yorkshire. Some of this was family related but some was pleasure/exploration based. Throughout though a theme about pursuing independent and local businesses to explore was followed.
On the trek to South Wales we stayed again in our regular stopover in a pub nea...
It is always interesting to be asked to present at the Scottish Parliament in one of the Cross Party Groups (CPGs). On this occasion it was the CPG on independent convenience stores organised by th...
