We recently visited Sutton High Street More than a dozen empty shops remain closed on Sutton High Street. The view of boarded up or empty shop fronts has become a normal site for many businesses and residents in recent years. Research by the Local Data Company found a net total of 4,690 high street chain store outlets permanently closed across Britain in 2020. Over at Sutton High Street, several stores remained dormant in between bigger chains that have survived such as Poundland and Wilko. On Wednesday (July 21), Sutton Guardian took a trip to Sutton High Street. Walking from the top of the High Street, at the junction with Carshalton Road, to the other side over at Marshall Road, we counted some 14 store fronts that were either boarded up, permanently closed or lying empty behind locked glass doors.