Payday lenders and betting shops that "engulf" people in debt could be banned from high streets under a Labour Government.
Ed Miliband has used the launch of his party's local election campaign to propose changes to planning laws, allowing councils to refuse permission for certain businesses.
It marks the start of what is likely to be a month of tough campaigning ahead of the poll on May 2, with Nick Clegg also poised to set out the Liberal Democrats' stall.
At the start of a three-day tour of 10 towns, Mr Miliband told supporters in Ipswich high streets were changing, "often not for the better".
"One of the fastest growing businesses on the high street are the payday lenders," he said.
Nick Clegg will attack Labour and the Tories "In hard times, it is no wonder people turn to them. But often they just engulf people in debts that they cannot pay.
"Too many councils are finding that they don't have the real power to stand up for local people. But that is what politics is supposed to be about: standing up for those without power and giving power to them.
"Currently if a bank branch closes down, a payday loan shop can move in and open up in the same place, even if there's another lender just down the street. And there's nothing the council can do That can't be right."
Meanwhile, the Deputy Prime Minister will launch a blistering attack on the Conservatives and Labour as he begins his appeal for votes.
Mr Clegg will claim his political rivals have both squandered taxpayers' money on "vanity projects", and argue that his party would "spread the burden of austerity fairly, investing in jobs and help for hard-pressed families".
"Despite all their stated differences, a vote for Labour or the Tories will be a vote for the same thing," the Lib Dem leader will say.
"Their record in local government shows that even when millions of families are feeling the pinch, they'll both squander taxpayers' money on waste, inefficiency and their own vanity projects."
Mr Clegg will highlight changes to the personal tax allowance - raised to £9,440 over the weekend - and pledge to continue to fight for the introduction of a mansion tax.
The Tory poster campaign focuses on tax Over the weekend, the Conservative Party launched a poster campaign, claiming 24 million people are now paying £600 less income tax than they were when Labour were in power in 2010.
"We're restoring fairness at the very heart of our tax and welfare systems," Prime Minister David Cameron added on Twitter.
Elections are taking place in 212 areas across the country, including in North Tyneside and Doncaster, where voters will choose who they want to represent them as mayor.
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