The Prime Minister will change the rules to allow commercial properties including office blocks to be converted into flats more easily. But the move follows “horror stories” about tiny, cramped homes being created through office conversions - some less than 14 square metres. Changes to planning laws gave developers the power to turn offices into residential premises without seeking permission from local planning officers. There is little so far on planning and house-building - although we expect to hear more on this on Tuesday. As well as stimulating the economy after the Great Depression, FDR rewrote the economic rules of the US.

Source: Daily Mirror June 30, 2020 10:41 UTC