Following over a year of dormancy, retailers, food and beverage outlets and entertainment businesses have reopened and are enjoying pent-up demand and consumer savings being spent on the high street. Economists, however, predict that following the initial surge, consumer spending on the high street will level out.

We look at what it will take to be a sustainable high street in the future.

The Government is being urged to open COVID-19 vaccine centres in local high street locations to support the recovery of town and city centres.