The Local Data Company
Town Centre Intelligence
The town centre – it’s a complex organism where people ebb and flow, offices coexist with leisure outlets and retailers thrive or fail.
If you’re investing in property, managing the fortunes of a retail centre or planning new developments in a British town centre, you need the best available information at the touch of a button.
Geofutures is delighted to have delivered the first release of a new online application delivering instant insight into 1,300+ town centres in Great Britain. Our client is The Local Data Company, a leading provider of urban data, and the ground-breaking tool is Town Centre Intelligence (TCI).
Retailers can be searched and sorted from national scales down to individual streets, and data are delivered on vacancies, new and closed units, and the mix of retail classifications and between independents and multiples.
TCI also delivers valuable insights into churn rates, floorspace and government town centre statistics.
Listings, charts, maps, aerial and bird’s eye photography make patterns and trends obvious, while individual unit photographs bring all the vibrancy of the town centre to the desktop.
TCI is a great example of Geofutures’ work partnering expert providers of information, creating online mapping applications enabling them to offer even better value to their clients.
Innovative data cleansing and structuring processes were applied to allow Local Data Company information to be used in its new context, and test users have appreciated the highly intuitive search function, fast downloads and dynamic two-way data/map links created by our developers.
Even a cursory exploration of TCI reveals intriguing patterns and contrasts between town centres across the UK.
- Which town centre had the highest churn rate of retail premises in 2008?
- In which year did the percentage of multiples exceed the percentage of independent retail units nationwide?
- In which streets are vacant Manchester shops concentrated?
- Where are all Co-operative Food’s 2,420 units located?
All these insights and many more are delivered by Town Centre Intelligence: there’s more in our Products section.
