As Reporter Lewis Denison explains, Andy Burnham has pledged to give councils greater powers to block new bookmakers and vape shops in a bid to save Britain’s “hollowed-out high streets”.
The prime minister intends to scrap the so-called “aim to permit” rule, which limits local authorities’ ability to prevent betting shops and 24-hour slot machine venues from opening in their area.
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