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But there is another principle here into which we will delve further: not all these places are called “high street” and not all operations function as high street. They often function as an integrated urban enterprise that involves retail, hospitality and leisure—and I will continue henceforward with the RHL acronym. I can think of one high street not that many miles from me, in Crawley in West Sussex, where the high street is very much a secondary if not tertiary area, the whole thing having moved, first, to Queens Square and then much more recently to an indoor mall called County Mall. So the principal shopping is not high street. What do we mean by “high street”? The net effect of this will be a large passing of costs to consumers, and it will be represented not only by costs passed to consumers but in employment of staff. That has to be made clear: this has social consequences on employment.