Welcome to the September 2011 edition of the Place Bulletin. This month’s bulletin is a little on the downbeat side we’re afraid, with less than encouraging articles on the state of Britain’s high streets and the resulting shop vacancies. In addition we have some of the fall out from last months riots, with Grant Shapps proposing tenants be given training to run local panel meetings at which local issues would be discussed with a view to generating change – all part of the Government’s localism agenda, and Manchester’s response to the riots, which has attracted cynicism from some quarters. We also have an interesting article which looks at the empty ‘ghost’ housing estates in Ireland, and an article on a new list of the most expensive cities in the World, which includes some surprising results.