Analysis of UK high streets suggests gaps left by department stores may be permanent
Revelations that a fifth of former BHS stores remain empty on the fifth anniversary of the chain’s closure suggest gaps left by closed-down department stores on UK high streets and in shopping centres may become permanent.
Out of BHS’s 167 stores, 35 are still unoccupied five years after their doors closed for the final time in August 2016, according to research conducted for the Guardian by the Local Data Company (LDC).