Acomb Front Street is an important high street in York. It plays a vital role in the community and the wider city, and is home to many established and well-loved local independent retailers and community spaces.
We are putting local residents and businesses at the centre of plans to shape the future of Front Street. We also want to talk about how the pandemic has changed what you do, where you want to do it and how Front Street fits in to those plans.
Your contributions will help us to create an action plan to help Front Street provide the shops, services, spaces and jobs which benefit resident and boost the local economy.
Acomb Front Street
Like the city centre, it has a lower than national average proportion of empty units. While high streets all over the UK have increasing numbers of empty shop units, Front Street’s occupancy rates increased significantly in the last 3 years.
But it is not immune from the challenges facing high streets across the country, including the impact of coronavirus.
While high streets and district centres have always evolved, changes to the way we bank, work, access services and spend money are quicker and more dramatic than ever before.
The coronavirus response has sped these changes up, and will change some people’s behaviour forever. It has also helped more York residents to reconnect with their local communities, shops and services.
Join the conversation
This is an ongoing conversation which will shape our reaction and response to these changes and challenges.
We’re asking businesses, residents and visitors what they love and what they’d like to change about Acomb’s Front Street.
The council committed to a £50,000 investment in Front Street before the pandemic.
We'll use COVID-secure market research, online surveys and conversations across social media to develop ideas to secure the future of Front Street at the heart of Acomb’s social and economic life.
How to get involved
We'd like to thank everyone who took part in a recent survey about the future of Acomb Front Street - over 1000 of you responded.
You can still get involved in the Acomb Front Street conversation:
- follow, like and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter
- email economicgrowth@york.gov.uk if you would like to be involved