Reports today (9 Oct 2014) show that the loss of High Street shops in the first nine months of 2014 is over twice as large as in all of 2013.
My paper on Reinventing the High Street, written in 2009, suggests ways forward. https://tonybaldwinson.wordpress.com/2012/11/
Link to today’s report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29546101