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1. • Town Centre Protections Crucial to New Planning Rules

   • 04/10/2011
   • At the third and final meeting of its conference fringe debate series at Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, ACS will call for Ministers to consider improvements to its national planning reforms that drive investment into high streets.

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2. • Local Shops Call for OFT to Investigate Magazine Supply Chain

   • 03/10/2011
   • Competition regulators must intervene to break up the newspaper and magazine supply monopoly that harms retailers and consumers, says the Association of News Retailing (ANR).

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3. • ACS Calls on Energy Secretary to Stop Backbilling Abuses on Local Shops

   • 29/09/2011
   • ACS has called on Energy Secretary Chris Huhne to stop the double standards on energy contracts that leave local shops under threat of closure from backbilling.

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4. • Lowman tells Councillors: Future of High Streets in Your Hands

   • 27/09/2011
   • At the second meeting of its conference fringe debate series at Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) has urged Councillors to play a leading role in promoting sustainable high streets.

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5. • ACS Welcomes Lib Dem Pledge to Stand Firm Against Supermarkets

   • 19/09/2011
   • ACS has welcomed comments by Consumer Affairs Minister Ed Davey at Liberal Democrat Party Conference outlining the need to “stand firm” against supermarket power by introducing a robust Grocery Code Adjudicator.

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6. • Time for a Freeze in Minimum Wage, ACS tells the Low Pay Commission

   • 16/09/2011
   • Year on year increases in the national minimum wage are holding back businesses in the convenience sector, according to evidence submitted by ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) to this year’s investigation by the Low Pay Commission.

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7. • ACS Tells Ministers: Consistency and Fairness the Key to Effective Enforcement

   • 15/09/2011
   • Local shops suffer too often from inconsistency in the enforcement of regulation and regulators should focus on the wrong doers rather than responsible businesses.

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8. • Jonathan James to be Next ACS Chairman

   • 14/09/2011
   • ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) has announced that Jonathan James will chair the organisation from November 2011 to November 2013.

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9. • Town Centre Investment Vital as Shop Vacancy Rate Remains High

   • 08/09/2011
   • ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) has called for planning laws that drive new investment into our town centres as new figures show that one in seven of the shops remain empty.

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10. • Town Centre Policy Crucial to Success of New Planning Framework

    • 07/09/2011
    • ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) has called for the support of the influential Communities and Local Government Select Committee as it calls for Ministers to make crucial improvements to the new National Planning Policy Framework.

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11. • ACS Responds to Alcohol Concern Report on Availability of Alcohol

    • 05/09/2011
    • ACS has expressed disappointment at claims from Alcohol Concern that their latest report provides evidence that the number of off licenced-premises should be restricted. The report is not a sound basis for the conclusions they suggest.

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12. • Portas Urged to Recommend Radical Changes for UK High Streets

    • 30/08/2011
    • ACS has challenged the Government’s High Streets Tsar Mary Portas to take decisive action on the key issues affecting independent retailers ahead of the publication of her review at the end of this year.

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13. • ACS to Ask Politicians – Can Localism Save the High Street?

    • 24/08/2011
    • ACS will be taking its message about the importance of the high street and neighbourhood shopping to the politicians at their party conferences this autumn.

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14. • ACS Expresses Concern over Holiday Leave Proposals

    • 23/08/2011
    • ACS has expressed concern that any changes in holiday legislation for employees would have a significant regulatory and cost burden for retailers.

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15. • ACS Launches Sector's First Minimum Wage Focus Group

    • 18/08/2011
    • The impact of the National Minimum Wage on convenience retailers is to be explored in depth by ACS through an independently chaired focus group in September.

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