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'Old' town-centre model is dead, says former minister
South Wales Evening Post
|October 17, 2025
A FORMER Welsh minister has warned the traditional town-centre business model is “dead”, arguing there are no “magic bullets” such as free parking or abolishing business rates.
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Labour's Lee Waters said supermarkets, out-of-town retail, online shopping and the pandemic have “enormously disrupted” high streets, calling regeneration a “gnarly, knotty problem" rooted in economics. Waters warned there is little evidence that free parking works and it excludes the 25% without cars. Simply scrapping rates or offering free parking “is not going to bring [the old model] back", he said, urging a complex, long-t
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