Town Centre Intelligence
Town centres are important to all of us. The economic health of the high street is especially vital to retailers, commercial property professionals, investors, property owners, developers, planners, town centre managers and professional advisers.
Local authorities and regeneration bodies need to see clearly how their town or region is serviced by the retail and leisure sectors, how their high streets are changing, and to make reliable comparisons over time and between towns.
These are the needs met by Town Centre Intelligence (TCI), a ground-breaking information product from The Local Data Company (LDC), developed by Geofutures using LDC data.
Town Centre Intelligence here shows 2009 retail closures in Maidstone, with locations mapped, individual premises photos, national graphical comparisons and tabular data
TCI brings together LDC’s 310,000 business records and 230,000 images, along with several third-party urban datasets. Covering over 650 centres as well as every multiple retailer location, TCI delivers the most comprehensive and up to date town centre dataset available.
LDC’s army of locally based field researchers update geo-coded data on every commercial address in each centre every 26 weeks, creating the most accurate, detailed and current urban dataset available.
Through its simple, intuitive screen pages, TCI enables you to see:
- the exact location of every independent and multiple retailer
- a high resolution image of every retail and leisure unit in each centre
- competing/neighbouring businesses within a town
- movers on the high street, by retailer, classification or type
- the independent/multiple and retail classification mix in over 650 centres
- the historical occupancy/imagery of a unit
- the stock and vacancy locations in a centre
- the churn rate of a unit, street or centre
Drilling down to fine-scale data or comparing like with like across towns is easy and instantaneous, and information can be downloaded as a report at the click of a button. Aerial and bird’s eye photography work alongside mapping backgrounds, enabling users to diagnose the health of the high street in unprecedented detail.
For more information and a demo of Town Centre Intelligence, or to learn more about added-value data from TCI, please visit The Local Data Company.
For more information about the technical aspects of developing this product, please contact Geofutures.
