More people living in City Centres

[A Load of Squit 5,195]

What do you do with the empty shops? John Lewis coming up with a solution. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57712618

John Lewis plans to build 10,000 rental homes

The company said 7,000 of the initial 10,000 homes would be on sites in its existing property portfolio, ranging from studio flats to houses.

 

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2 hours ago, A Load of Squit said:

What do you do with the empty shops? John Lewis coming up with a solution. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57712618

John Lewis plans to build 10,000 rental homes

The company said 7,000 of the initial 10,000 homes would be on sites in its existing property portfolio, ranging from studio flats to houses.

 

Makes a lot of sense to regenerate the city centres rather than destroy the countryside with hideous middle-class housing estates. 

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I wonder how many houses are empty or could be made rehabitable at a lot less cost.

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51 minutes ago, keelansgrandad said:

I wonder how many houses are empty or could be made rehabitable at a lot less cost.

That would be good as well - don't think the two ideas are mutually exclusive and there is no doubt that there is going to be (is already) a big surplus of both office and retail space in most UK city centres which is never going to revert back to its original use.