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Plans to improve high streets align with Health Equity North 'Ghost Towns' report recommendations
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has today (August 10) announced new plans aimed at improving high streets, with new vape shops requiring planning permission and councils receiving more powers to block new betting shops.
The announcement aligns with the observations and recommendations from our 2025 report: Ghost Towns: The Decline of the High Street and Health Inequalities.
Commenting on the announcement, lead author of the report Dr Eman Zied Abozied, Research Associate at Newcastle University, said: "We welcome the Prime…
An editorial written by two Health Equity North (HEN) Academic…
A researcher who co-authored Health Equity North’s Children in Care…
Following the announcement of today’s (March 26, 2025) Spring Statement…
Health Equity North (HEN) has scooped a prestigious life sciences…
Since coming to power last year, the Labour Government has…
Read the report here At the Labour Party Conference in…
New research from Health Equity North (HEN) Director finds vaccine…
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves today (30 October 2024)…
Coastal, rural and areas in the North of England are…
