New Measures to Breathe Life into Empty Buildings

Eric Pickles has announced measures to ensure the very best use is made of empty and underused buildings, to provide much needed homes and businesses.  The changes will bring buildings back to life by reducing costs, cutting bureaucracy and making it easier to change them to other uses. New permitted development rights will enable offices to be converted to homes. This is an opportunity for office owners and developers to bring outdated and underused buildings back to life and create much needed new housing. Read the full ministerial statement on the CLG website.