Product Description

This book reviews the methodology and emphasises a recommended best practice approach to the application of retail impact assessment. It is a valuable guide for students, academics and professionals in this field.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734290 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Review
"The usefulness of "Retail Impact Assessment is threefold. First, it provides a handbook for those involved in impact studies. By explaining previous methodologies and presenting, in detail, a proposed extension to existing approaches, it enables planners, retailers, and their consultants to understand and undertake retail assessment exercises. Second, the book provides students with an easily accessible summary and review of approaches to planning policy for large stores in the U.K. Finally, the book provides a stimulus for further research. The weaknesses of the process of gaining permission for new stores are all too obvious, and research is needed on improving the techniques for measuring the dynamics of spatial competition in retailing. England's book implicitly makes the case for a major research effort into better understanding of the processes and dynamics of retail competition.."
-"The Professional Geographer
"This book is a best-practice guide to assessment of retail impact.."
-Choice, September 2001
"Trying to show why and how current approaches to assessing retail impact needs to be improved, the author offers examples from all retail sectors, including warehouses, outlet centers, and regional shopping centers."
-Business Horizons May-June 2002

From the Back Cover
The rapid advances in retailing during the latter part of the 20th century have led to pressures for new forms of shopping development and conflicts with established planning policy on the location of new stores and centres. In response to these pressures, various methods have been devised to assess the potential impact of new retail developments on existing centres. This book reviews the methodology and emphasises a recommended best practice approach to the application of retail impact assessment.
The book shows why and how the current approaches to retail impact assessment need to be improved. It includes examples from all the major retail sectors, for example foodstores, retail warehouses, factory outlet centres and regional shopping centres. Evidence is given of the impacts different types of retail development have and an analysis is made of retail impact issues in Europe and North America, as well as the UK. Advice is given on the application of best practice, with an illustration of the impact assessment framework and a checklist for retail impact assessment. Conclusions are drawn on policy issues in retail planning and on the importance of a practical guide for assessing retail impact.
The approach recommended has been tested through 12 years of practical experience in planning consultancy, specialising in retail planning. It has shown to be a reliable method of predicting the impact of new retail developments and is sufficiently robust to cope with any future changes in government policy. the book has chapter summaries, as well as a glossary and bibliography. Retail Impact Assessment is an introduction to the subject for planners and surveyors working in this field and is a practical guide for new and experienced professionals, involved with proposals for new retail development. It is also a valuable text for students studying retail planning.

About the Author
Dr John England is a Partner in England & Lyle, Chartered Town Planners. He previously worked as a planner with WS Atkins and in local government. He has specialised in retail planning and was awarded a PhD in 1997 for research on retail impact assessment.