Shapps backs retail guru Portas’s parking message

Mary Portas

Ministers have endorsed retail adviser Mary Portas’s call for councils to ensure their town centre parking policies are motorist-friendly.

The government is preparing a formal response to the Portas Review but housing and local government minister Grant Shapps has launched a competition to choose 12 towns to become ‘Portas Pilots’, with the winners sharing a £1m grant to turn around their high streets.

The 12 successful applicants will create ‘Town Teams’,...

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