The East of England, market towns and retail parks saw the highest return of retail footfall yesterday as non-essential stores re-opened across England and Wales.
According to Footfall, at 3pm footfall across UK shopping destinations was down 16.2% on 2019.
For market towns the fall was just 3.5%. This was followed by coastal towns (-16.2%), outer London (-19.7%), historical towns (-20.3%), regional cities (31.7%) and central London (55.3%).
Retail parks saw a rise of 1.7%. Shopping centres saw footfall 16.7% lower and high streets a drop of 24.2%.
The east of England saw a 3.3% drop, Yorkshire and the north of England a 4.4% drop, south-east of England a 4.8% fall, West Midlands a 6.6% decline, south-west a 7.8% fall, East Midlands saw a 8.8% decline, Wales a 15.9% fall and Scotland a 49.9% drop.
Non-essential retail has yet to re-open in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
