Northern Cities More Adversely Affected by Restrictions than in The South
Mobility levels in the big northern cities failed to recover to their pre-pandemic levels following lockdown in the summer, in contrast to their southern counterparts new data shows.
Footfall in cities across the North and South dropped to just above half of their usual levels during the first lockdown recovered over a period of 8 weeks, according to Huq Industries’ high frequency mobile data.
But unlike Southern cities eg. London and Bristol, recovery across Northern centres – Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Newcastle – stalled from June onwards, tracking at 80 per cent.
‘Levelling Up’ and balancing the ‘North-South Divide’ are priority themes for the government and contrasts such as data this point to the many differences between the regional groups.
In subsequent analyses we will provide a more detailed view of the trends and underpin this data and point to some of the structural issues that drive them.
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