The quiet rearrangement of British retail floorspace

Placeholder analysis: vacancy, conversion and the slow return of the high street as a service strip. This placeholder page holds the layout for a full analysis: standfirst, body copy with subheadings, one list and the illustration slot. Production copy replaces it during the content phase.

What this page will carry

The final piece follows the newsroom format: a reported opening, two explanatory sections and a closing paragraph that states what changes next.

• Reported opening built from a single canonical source.
• Two explanatory sections with their own subheadings.
• One illustration with a topic-only caption.

Desk

Business — Companies, retail, industry, management and entrepreneurship.