England & Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland Economy and regeneration , Housing and planning

At home in the high street: can shops and offices be successfully converted into housing?

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Summary

Creating homes from non-domestic buildings has gained a poor reputation, with people forced to live in ‘micro’ flats and other poor-quality housing, but with the UK government proposing a further extension of permitted development, a new briefing investigates whether such conversions can work successfully.

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