COVID-19 Lockdown High Street Resilience Classification

This dataset, developed by GeoDS using data from Green Street (formerly the Local Data Company - LDC), assesses the resilience of high streets in Great Britain following government-enforced COVID-19 pandemic restrictions from March 2020 to August 2021. It provides detailed, spatially granular resilience indicators, allowing researchers to examine retail characteristics at the high street level across Great Britain.

Content

The dataset contains aggregated indicators for British high streets as defined by the retail centre boundaries (comprising 15 or more retail locations) and the Ordnance Survey’s 2019 high street definition. High street classifications were drawn from seven types of retail centres (e.g., district centres, major town centres) and exclude retail parks and out-of-town shopping centres. For a detailed explanation of columns and dataset structure, refer to the Variable Dictionary and Data Summary, available for download in the resource section below.

Quality, Representation and Bias

The dataset aggregates data primarily from the Green Street Retail Type, Vacancy, and Address dataset, which offers near-complete coverage of retailers across Great Britain. Retail type coding has been recalculated and verified for consistency. However: - Indicators are not available for all 6,423 centres in the GeoDS retail centre boundaries dataset. - Retail parks, out-of-town centres, and centres with fewer than 15 Green Street-tracked units were excluded to ensure data security and protect commercial sensitivity. - High street data for Northern Ireland is not included due to a lack of Green Street data.

Safeguarded Fast-tracked

Data and Resources

This dataset is categorised as Safeguarded Fast-tracked and therefore access to the underlying data is only available upon application. You can view metadata here to determine whether the data will be of use to you. You can apply for access to it by requesting it here.

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Additional Info

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Source Green Street (formerly the Local Data Company), GeoDS
Author Abigail Hill
Maintainer Oliver O'Brien
Last Updated February 18, 2026, 17:43 (UTC)
Created November 29, 2024, 09:29 (UTC)
Attribution The data for this research have been provided by the Geographic Data Service (geods.ac.uk), a Smart Data Research UK Investment: ES/Z504464/1.
Columns 3
Granularity Retail Centre
Rows 486
Spatial Coverage United Kingdom
Temporal Coverage January 2019 to December 2022