PPG6 and the contemporary UK food store development dynamic

Abstract

Tightened UK land‐use planning regulation governing retail development, specifically the 1993 and 1996 revisions of the Department of the Environment’s PPG6 Town Centres and Retail Developments, appeared to usher in a new era of more restricted and redirected food store expansion. This paper explores to what extent that restriction and redirection has occurred, sifts rhetoric from “reality” in the intense debates that have surrounded PPG6, poses alternative interpretations of the contemporary food store development dynamic, and assesses the food choice implications of these developments.

Citation

Wrigley, N. (1998), "PPG6 and the contemporary UK food store development dynamic", British Food Journal, Vol. 100 No. 3, pp. 154-161. https://doi.org/10.1108/00070709810207540