Commercial property turn into residential with no planning permission needed.

chucknorris

Generali wrote: »

You can wave goodbye to many more village pubs if those can be converted under these rules.

Yes I had a chat last year in a small pub owner that was losing money and the owner was saying he had applied for but was refused planning permission to convert to residential. Seems like him and others in his position now have a way out and will be able to get rid of their failing business.

daveyjp

Converting a commercial property can cost more than building a new house.

Gorgeous_George

Interesting idea and long overdue.

The cost of development won't be cheap of course and rental income will need to justify the initial outlay.

It's a clear sign that the Condems accept that the private sector will not help the jobs market when thousands of public sector workers are made redundant. The Tories love a high unemployment, low wage economy - and Cleggie just does what he's told to keep his master happy in order to hold on to his undeserved and unelected position.

GG

Generali

daveyjp wrote: »

Converting a commercial property can cost more than building a new house.

Ah yes but if you don't need planning permission then it saves you a fortune.

MrEnglish

daveyjp wrote: »

Converting a commercial property can cost more than building a new house.

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

Interesting idea and long overdue.

The cost of development won't be cheap of course and rental income will need to justify the initial outlay.

GG

It will not cost much at all. If already got water and wiring its cosmetic. Any unskilled person could convert the majority of commercial places into residential everything you need is in your local homebase.

The point is that more supply on the residential market will add even more downwards pressure on UK house prices.

leveller2911

MrEnglish wrote: »

It will not cost much at all. If already got water and wiring its cosmetic. Any unskilled person could convert the majority of commercial places into residential everything you need is in your local homebase.



:rotfl:Everything you need to convert a building except the knowledge and skill to carry it through......Sourcing materials is the easy bit.......

Sorry but this post makes me chuckle, if it were all that easy why haven't we all converted properties. Have you been watching too many DIY programmes?, "Homes under the Hammer "should be banned........

chucknorris

leveller2911 wrote: »

MrEnglish wrote: »

It will not cost much at all. If already got water and wiring its cosmetic. Any unskilled person could convert the majority of commercial places into residential everything you need is in your local homebase.



:rotfl:Everything you need to convert a building except the knowledge and skill to carry it through......Sourcing materials is the easy bit.......

Sorry but this post makes me chuckle, if it were all that easy why haven't we all converted properties. Have you been watching too many DIY programmes?, "Homes under the Hammer "should be banned........

Totally agree, I've been the QS on a few refurb projects that experienced building contractors have messed up, refurb is usually much more complicated and riskier than an equivalent new build project.

Wookster

What a long overdue idea.

Think of all the town pubs closing down. There is a glut of second tier commercial property at the moment, even in trendy parts of london such as Hoxton/ shoreditch.

Cleaver

MrEnglish wrote: »

Any unskilled person could convert the majority of commercial places into residential everything you need is in your local homebase.

As an unskilled person who regularly pops down the DIY shop in preparation to complete some 'easy' task which ends up with hours of swearing and piles of mess I'd like to say that your comment is a load of tosh. Of course an unskilled person couldn't convert a commercial property in to a residential property, that's why we have builders, and plasterers, electricians, plumbers etc. If we could all do that stuff then these people wouldn't exist.

I agree with Wookster, this seems a long overdue change. You often drive past a long-boarded up pub, or old warehouse and think, "ooh, that'd make a nice pad".

Cleaver

MrEnglish wrote: »

The point is that more supply on the residential market will add even more downwards pressure on UK house prices.

Obviously the simple economist in me agrees, as obviously the more supply the cheaper prices go. But then doesn't it depend on demand? There were thousands of warehouse conversions and new builds during the last decade adding to housing stock and prices still rose and rose. I guess that's a different time though.

Anyway, I'm going to be the first person to pitch a property idea to TV execs about doing up commercial properties in to residential ones. Think I'll start with ITV as they seem to have a lack of property programmes, but I need a title. Anyone? I've thought of 'Premises to Pad' and 'From Office to Ownership' but they are both a bit sh*t. I'm going to get former Blue Peter presenter Diane Louise Jordan to front it, as I'm sure she's not doing anything else.