Britain’s nightlife is shrinking at an alarming pace, with large parts of the country turning into cultural “deserts” as pubs, clubs and music venues shut their doors.
Fresh research by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and NIQ shows that more than one in four towns and cities now have no nightclub at all, while 16 per cent have lost all late-night venues.
Since March 2020, Britain has lost over a quarter (26.4 per cent) of its after-hours venues, leaving just 2,424 still open nationwide. Birmingham has seen the sharpest decline, with numbers down 27.5 per cent, while Manchester has recorded a 23.3 per cent fall and now counts just 79 late-night venues. London has suffered a 20.8 per cent reduction.
Michael Kill, chief executive of the NTIA, warned the losses were stripping towns and cities of vital cultural infrastructure:
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