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Tag Archives: Farm Shops
Trading Places: our Town and Country Planning Columns
In 2012 Anne Findlay and I attempted to take over from Professor Cliff Guy who had provided the Trading Places columns in Town and Country Planning for 12 years. In the subsequent 6 years we have produced 23 columns, but … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Alcohol, BIDS, Bill Grimsey, Bookmakers, Consumer Change, Consumers, Farm Shops, Food Retailing, Government, High Streets, Internet shopping, Mary Portas, Places, Planning, Pop-Up Shops, Proactive Planning, Rates, Resilience, Retail Change, Retail Parks, Retail Planning, Retail Policy, Social Inequality, Town & Country PLanning, Town Centre Review, Town Centres, Uncategorized
Tagged BIDs, Bookmakers, Business rates, Consumer change, Farm Shops, High Streets, Obesity, Planning, Pop-Up Shops, Rates, Retail, Retail Change, retail parks, Retail Planning, TCPA, Town and Country Planning, Town Centres
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Free the Fife One!
A few posts back I made some comments about farm shops and shops on a farm. The response directly to me was fascinating. Which is how I came to spend a day last week in Fife – and no, contrary … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Farm Shops, Farmers Markets, Food, Food Tourism, Retail Economy, Slow Food
Tagged Authenticity, Farm Shops, Fife, Food Tourism, Fruit, Meat, Quality
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Farm Shops or Shops on a Farm?
Following on the theme from last week about local food and sense of place, my eye was caught over the weekend by an article in Scotland on Sunday. The article (the online version can be found here) was entitled “Farm … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Shops, Farmers Markets, Food, Food Tourism
Tagged Farm Shops, Farmers Markets, Fife, Food, Food Tourism, Shops
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