London's creative quarters: the prized high streets and villages seeing a midweek renaissance

B efore the pandemic only around one in five of us worked from home — a scatter of freelancers spending their weekdays café-hopping and trying to ignore the shrieking toddlers. Fast forward to 2023 and those same cafés have a very different client profile. According to the Government's latest figures around a third of us WFH at least one day per week, with profound impacts on our high streets. Suburbs which once emptied out Monday to Friday have had a midweek renaissance and are now busy with home workers popping out for some lunch or a break. Those same workers,…