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Phase 2 of the Meanwhile Project has been given the go ahead by CLG enabling the project to continue to support and facilitate temporary uses of empty shops and sites in England. Jess Steele, Development Trusts Association and lead on the Meanwhile Project said "The Development Trusts Association welcomes the Government’s support for the next phase of the Meanwhile Project. This project helps people to act now rather than watch our town centres and neighbourhoods decline while we wait for recovery. Assets exist in time as well as space - an empty building or delayed site development is social and economic value lost. We cannot afford to let such resources go to waste any longer. Working in partnership with councils and town centre managers, owners and agents, community groups and creative projects across the country, we can begin to reinvent the high street and make 'meanwhile use' a mainstream part of the way we do business."