Michael Gove relaxes planning rules to create more homes in city centres

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Michael Gove says he wants to make it easier to convert empty retail premises and betting shops into flats and houses. But critics say such conversions are often poor quality. What do you think?

In a speech in central London, Mr Gove said the government would "unequivocally, unapologetically and intensively concentrating our biggest efforts in the hearts of our cities".

The Local Government Association has warned that offices, shops and barns are not always suitable for housing, and could result in the creation of poor quality homes.Anthony Browne: Cambridge is "already growing incredibly rapidly" but a lack of water means expansion plans are "undeliverable”. However, in an early sign that Mr Gove's plans may attract criticism from the government's own backbenchers, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire Anthony Browne"I will do everything I can to stop the government's nonsense plans to impose mass housebuilding on Cambridge, where all major developments are now blocked by the Environment Agency because we have quite literally run out of water.

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