In the news today:
Hazel Blears, the Community Secretary, will also unveil provisions to help local people or entrepreneurs temporarily convert empty shops into community projects or businesses, such as local art displays, to avoid high streets being boarded up. The provisions include special planning application waivers, standard interim-use leases, and temporarily leasing shops to councils that will allow the shops to get makeovers.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/re…
MPs plan to let artists take over empty shops to prevent ghost towns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/14/gov…
Communities should use more empty shops as neighbourhood resources to help prevent town centres becoming magnets for crime, the government is to say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7997449.stm
Govt: Turn empty shops into art galleries
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/housing-and-planning/govt-turn-empty-shops-into-art-galleries-$1287777.htm
Hazel Blears' plan to let artists take over empty Woolworths stores to prevent ghost towns
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169852/Ha…
Blears unveils social enterprise plan for empty shops to tackle recession in the high street
http://www.24dash.com/news/Local_Government/2009-0…
More empty shops should be used by communities as art galleries, cafes or advice centres to stop the recession turning high streets into crime-ridden ghost towns, the Government is due to urge.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest-national-news/Plan…
Empty shops should be converted to art galleries to keep high streets alive during downturn
Shops left empty as a result of retailers going under during the recession should re-open as art galleries, play groups and trendy cafes, ministers will say today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politic…
