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MEANWHILE:

in the intervening time; during the interval; while something else happens.

Something is happening on the high street.

Empty shops are spreading as the recession bites hard.

They spoil town centres and destroy social and economic value.

Either we can sit tight and let town centres remain blighted by empty properties until a commercial use reappears. Landlords will bear the cost of an unproductive asset.

Pedestrians will have to put up with shuttered facades and lack of life on the street.

Or, MEANWHILE, we can do something about it, re-animate these spaces with temporary projects that allow local people and community groups to experiment with new projects and enterprises, relieve the burden for landlords of an empty property and support the surviving businesses on the high street by stimulating new footfall and users in the town centre.