Sentence examples for high street needs from inspiring English sources

The high street needs to embrace everyone.

Come on, Britain, your high street needs you.

A Local Government Association spokesperson said: "The modern high street needs to offer a mix of entertainment and leisure facilities, alongside quality shops.

He added: "Town centres and the high street need a minister.

The news that four out of 10 shops will have to shut in the next five years, casting further doubt on the future of the beleaguered British high street, need not be greeted with dismay.

That's why Portas is adamant that high streets needs to offer something that supermarket aisles cannot.

Supermarket or not, high streets need to continually revitalise themselves if they are to remain relevant.

It's the difference between taking a long-term view and a short-term one and it's what our high streets need.

Portas said the exercise was not about "pointing fingers of blame" but the report attacked the rapacious growth of the supermarkets and warned that high streets needed to find a new raison d'etre – beyond retail – to survive.

Peter Box, of the Local Government Association (LGA), said: "Councils have long recognised that our high streets need an urgent revamp, which is why the Local Government Association called for councils to have the power to take over empty shops and use them to provide services such as training centres, libraries or youth clubs, while tenants were found.

We can't put the genie back in the bottle - our shopping habits have changed and High Streets need to adapt too.