Changing rules on commercial-to-residential property conversion will create a developers’ free-for-allPhotograph: Rex/ShutterstockPhotograph: Rex/Shutterstockne of the pleasures of post-lockdown life has been the chance to go back to familiar businesses and high street shops, putting some much-needed cash into tills. Though often hit by the long-term shift to online retail – which the pandemic, of course, accelerated – such places continue to knit the social fabric together in vital ways.
Fat chance of that happening. They're only interested in getting more money so it'll all be sold off to the highest bidder.
Let councils decide
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