'LGA chairman Margaret Eaton said: “If ever there is an image that symbolises the times we are in, it is desolate town centres with rows of empty shops where once there were small local retailers, a Woolworths or a Zavvi.

Decisive action must be taken to stop our high streets turning from clone towns into ghost towns.

The aim would be to get businesses back into these shops, but at the very least councils would be able to make sure that buildings aren’t allowed to fall into a state o disrepair that ends up blighting a whole town centre.'

A quote from the Telford Journal about high street shops becoming vacant. Although I agree with this statement, in today's society it seems unlikely that small businesses will be able to move back into the high street and survive alongside corporate businesses.