What Will North East High Streets Look Like in 5 Years?

With River Island closing, a high street staple for years, what do you think your local high street will look like in 5 years time?

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00:00hopefully more businesses maybe more local ones to support small business

00:05owners well if the government carries on as it is they're going to be even worse

00:09than they are now because the government is taking money out of the pockets of

00:13people who don't have that much but people who don't have that much spend it

00:18in the high street if you give money to people at the higher income groups they

00:23spend it in Ibiza or wherever they go for their holidays but poorer people

00:29spend any money they're given in benefits they spend locally there will there will

00:34be some sort of shops there what they will be I can't say for sure probably

00:38ones that and it can deal with like the seasonal decrease in population with all

00:45the students going home I think that's the thing we are the shops here are quite

00:50dependent on the students so I would think outside of term time business might be a

00:54bit difficult so hopefully something that can account for that would make high

00:58streets still a bit more relevant