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Business Premises Data (Subscribers only)
Premises-level data from Local Data Company (LDC). Provides ground-verified data on retail, non-retail and leisure units and vacant premises across high street, town centres, and the Central Activity Zone. It includes business types and subcategories such as clothing, health and beauty, restaurants, pubs, hotels, and cinemas. Opening hours data from LDC places provides premises-level operating hours for each day of...
Mobility Data (Subscribers only)
HSDS mobility data has been anonymised and aggregated data by BT. This data is useful for understanding pedestrian density, guiding urban development and retail planning decisions. It captures footfall traffic trends, including footfall counts, visitor demographics and behaviours like return visits and dwell time. Please note the terms of our current tenders with our data providers only allow us to...
Spend Data (Subscribers only)
HSDS spend data has been anonymised and aggregated by Mastercard. This data is useful for analysing consumer behaviour, economic trends, and informing business strategies and policy decisions. Spend is reported as an index value, not £ amount. To protect retailer confidentiality, you cannot see the actual pounds spent or the actual number of transactions. Please note the terms of our...
HSDS Partnership Data
Interactive tools Please note the terms of our current tenders with our data providers only allow us to share the below interactive tools with London borough and Business Improvement District (BID) officers who are subscribed to the High Streets Data Service. A list of subscribed organisations is available here. High Street Data Service Hub A dashboard to explore and compare...
HSDS Insights & Research
The Greater London Authority (GLA) High Streets Data Service (HSDS) provides its members with regular analytical briefings on the key issues facing retail areas across all of London. Our analysis project results are summarised below. Friday Effect Update June 2024 Analysis Question: Is there a “Friday Effect” (drop-off in activity on Friday) in London’s Central Activity Zone (CAZ), and what...
HRN 06 (2021) An analysis of housing floorspace per person
This Housing Research Note, published in February 2021 examines patterns and trends over time in housing floorspace in London and England, as well as making some indicative comparisons between countries and between London boroughs. It focuses on the measurement of floorspace per person, calculated as the average space (in square metres) per occupied dwelling divided by the average number of people per household.
HRN 07 (2021) Who moves into social housing in London?
This Housing Research Note, published in November 2021, sets out an analysis of data on social housing lettings in London, in order to understand more about the characteristics of people who move into social housing in London. The analysis first focuses on lettings into social housing in 2019/20 (the latest year for which detailed data was available at the time...
HRN 08 (2022) Housing and race equality in London
This Housing Research Note, published in March 2022, analyses a range of secondary data sources to shed light on the relationships between housing and race inequality in London. Black, Asian and minority ethnicity Londoners are not a monolithic group, and there is considerable diversity within each of the groups analysed in this report. But on average, Black Londoners and those...
HRN 09 (2023) Understanding recent rental trends in London’s private rental market
This Housing Research Note, published in June 2023, compiles and analyses a range of data on the large rent increases in London’s private rental market since 2021 and the reasons behind these trends. Rents for new tenancies fell sharply during the first part of the pandemic period but subsequently increased very rapidly. The growth in rents between early 2021 and...
HRN 10 (2023) The affordability impacts of new housing supply: A summary of recent research
This Housing Research Note, published in August 2023, summarises the findings of recent economic research into the impacts on affordability of new housing supply. There is already evidence that increases in the supply of housing bear down on housing costs over the long term, but until recently there has been little evidence on the short-term and local impacts of new...