The figure comes from Bury Council’s latest Public Health Annual Report, which highlights the impact of the physical environment on health and wellbeing. It identifies shops, fast-food outlets, pubs, betting shops, and vape stores as types of businesses that can affect community health. It focuses on four key areas: alcohol, gambling, fast food, and smoking and vaping. Alcohol-related illness rates in Bury are above the England average, with hotspots like Radcliffe also recording significantly higher alcohol-related hospital admissions. Other current measures include supporting healthier food options through partnerships with Bury Market and the Bury Food Partnership, seizing illegal cigarettes and vapes, and training staff to spot signs of gambling harm.