Congratulations to Preston for being ranked by Nanny as the "unhealthiest high street in the UK"!
This accolade was presented by The Royal Society for Public Health, which assessed 70 areas in the UK according to the types of businesses found there.
On Nanny's list of evil businesses are bookmakers, loan shops, tanning salons and fast-food outlets. These are viewed as having a "negative impact" on public health.
Would Nanny prefer a row of boarded up shops then?
On Nanny's good list of businesses were leisure centres and health services; no food shops then?
It seems that we are meant to exercise, but not eat!
Shrewsbury was named as having the "healthiest" High Street.
Based on the award, Nanny has called for a limit of 5% of each "unhealthy" type of business on a High Street to avoid saturation.
Why 5%?
Is there a scientific basis for this limit?
No, I thought not!
Therefore if only 5% of shops can be "evil", if no other shop wishes to set up business there we will end up with rows and rows of boarded up shop fronts which employ no one.
Here are Nanny's rankings as per the BBC:
Britain's "unhealthiest High Streets" ranked
1. Preston2. Middlesbrough
3. Coventry
4. Blackpool
5. Northampton
6. Wolverhampton
7. Grimsby
8. Huddersfield
9. Stoke-on-Trent
10. Eastbourne
Source: Royal Society for Public Health
Britain's "healthiest High Streets" ranked
1. Shrewsbury2. Ayr
3. Salisbury
4. Perth
5. Hereford
6. Carlisle
7. Cambridge
8. Cheltenham
9. York
10. Bristol
Source: Royal Society for Public Health
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