It is a pleasure to be invited to contribute an economic development blog to Planning and Regeneration and Renewal. Particular when a week like last – during which think tank the Work Foundation published its Plan for Growth in the Knowledge Economy report; a number of major retailers (TJ Hughes, Habitat, Thorntons, Jane Norman) were poised to go into administration suggesting further contraction of the traditional High Street, and the new LEPs submitted their Enterprise Zone proposals – illustrates, if such were needed, the huge challenges facing economic development professionals and our planning colleagues.
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