Find the good stuff around the corner.

Highstreett is a local guide to independent businesses. No chains, no multinationals, just the good stuff.

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How it works

Three steps. Zero chains.

Discover

Search for local businesses in any town or city in the UK. Find only independent businesses — no chains and no multinationals.

Visit

Visit and shop local wherever you are. In Liverpool? Buy Liverpool. In Brighton? Buy Brighton.

Save and catalog your visits

When you log in, you can document and track which local businesses you've visited in each place with a Goodreads-style system.

Plan a trip

Build a local trip around the part of town you actually want.

Pick a city, optionally narrow it to a neighbourhood, and we will build a one to seven day plan around independent businesses only.

trip planner

What this does

Give it a city, an optional neighbourhood, and a few preferences and it will build a structured local trip from the businesses we already know about.

Try this

I am in Bristol for two days. Keep me around Stokes Croft and Clifton. I want quiet coffee, a good bookshop, lunch under 20 pounds, and somewhere relaxed for a glass of wine in the evening.

Coverage is only as good as the businesses in the directory, so the plans improve as the database gets deeper.

The local multiplier

Spend £10 at a local shop and £6.30 stays in your town.

Spend that same tenner at a chain and only £2.40 stays local. That is the difference. More of your money goes back into local staff, local suppliers and local rent. Do that often enough and towns get stronger.

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£10 · same lunch

money kept local

Independent café

locally owned

£6.30

stays local of £10

Local chain

3 to 9 outlets

£4.10

stays local of £10

National chain