Testing the effectiveness of the proposed UK ‘competition test’

Rebecca Hughes, Alan George Hallsworth and Graham Clarke

The Service Industries Journal, 2009, vol. 29, issue 5, 569-590

Abstract: An ongoing inquiry by the UK Competition Commission (CC) -- the Groceries Inquiry -- has covered supplier relationships, landholdings and, controversially, the topic of planning regulations. The latter lies within the remit of the Department for Communities and Local Government. Accordingly, Competition issues now intrude directly into planning since the identity -- fascia -- of a proposed retailer taking a new development had previously been disregarded. The CC has produced a set of guidelines to show how a proposed fascia test might be operationalised. Applying them to hypothesised store locations we find that most pass the test: an outcome that carries interesting political ramifications.

Date: 2009
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