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examination made 28 recommendations, including "teams championship city" high in the streets and concessions for entrepreneurs

a "Minister for stores" will be created after an independent study by Mary Portas retail experts said the high street in Britain had reached "crisis point".

More than 25,000 businesses have closed since the new millennium and Portas describes the situation in a more striking of the "Many [High Street] are sick, others are on the list reviews and some died, "he said after a seven-month investigation into the future of the street." They reached a critical point. If urgent measures are taken in both Great Britain has lost Inevitably, something that is fundamental to our society. "

Portas said the exercise was not "point the finger", but the report attacked the voracious growth of supermarkets and warned that the main streets to find a new reason to be - in- beyond retail - to survive.

The TV presenter told the Guardian that "too many" supermarket, but after four issues of the Competition Commission maintains the status quo that saw little chance for change in this area: "I want to leave [the expansion of supermarkets], "said Porter." But to some extent, the horse has bolted. We have to do and supermarkets. The only way to fight against this scourge is to create something different. "

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The review made 28 recommendations including the creation of "teams of the town" main street local champion, trade concessions for entrepreneurs and rates penalties for negligent owners. Portas also asked the shops of Paris have their own classification of planning so that their number could be more closely monitored. "I think the influx of boutiques of Paris, often in disadvantaged areas, ruined our streets high," he said.

The full report also suggests that stores become end gyms, daycare centers and bingo halls to start the regeneration of the community and starting the "national market" to drive traffic to the local main streets. Outside central London, the local visitors in the main streets had fallen by about 10% in the last three years, the report said.

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is considered one of the main factors behind the decline of Main Street. For every $ 1 spent in shops in the UK about 50 cents is spent on food and groceries with the countries in 8000 supermarkets speaks more than 97% of grocery sales and a growing percentage of non-food sales. Portas said his concern about the "progressive development" of supermarkets in areas such as optical and medical clinics that were previously the exclusive domain of the street. "These street high critical and central services should not simply be swallowed by the big supermarkets," he said. "I really fear that the large supermarkets justsell no more food, but all sorts of things that people buy on the street."

The business model is based on sales volume of supermarkets to reduce prices, but Porter said. "We need a more sophisticated understanding of what a good deal for most consumers look beyond price"

The decision to allow many city parks and retail shopping centers to be built also deplored Portas and requested that the Secretary of State must have an "outstanding" in all new developments outside the city. He also suggested that all new developments have a high proportion of "affordable shops" to promote entrepreneurship and diversity. Among the other recommendations of the elimination of unnecessary regulations to make it easier for people to become market traders and a league table of parking for the buyers can see their city compared to the costs.

With a background working in the luxury stores like Harvey Nichols and Harrods, Mary Queen of TV presenter was dressed in a controversial decision to make the report, but the end was welcomed by the business groups.

"Giving priority to action on the types of businesses and parking is on the right. These are the main concerns of customers and retailers, "said Stephen Robertson, director general of the British Retail Consortium.

Portas injected the kind of theater used in the television instead of stifling government reports. One section is titled "my vision" and some of his ideas, including a return on bingo halls - many killed by the smoking ban - with yoga studios and markets is reminiscent of the markets German Christmas markets or flea Paris, raised his eyebrows.

Box of Pedro, the Local Government Association, said: "Although some of the recommendations of the report are positive, such as cracking down on the number of new shops in Paris, we are very concerned that the removal of regulations on market stalls will give rise to rogue traders taking advantage of families short of money and flood the market with dangerous goods and counterfeiting. "

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