Changes in land-based gambling premises in London, Great Britain, 2020–2025
Jenny Blythe · 2026
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Description
Jenny Blythe tracks how London's betting shops, arcades, and bingo halls shifted across five years, and where they ended up. She used the national regulator's register for all 32 boroughs, matched with a standard score of local deprivation.
The city lost a few dozen sites in all, down from 1,516 to 1,478. But the drop hid a tilt. The poorest quarter of boroughs gained five sites while the richest quarter lost eleven. The link between poverty and site counts grew stronger over the period. Blythe argues that current rules let gambling cluster where harm bites hardest, and urges reform that weighs local need.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jenny Blythe |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |