The City of London said it was concerned about government proposals to relax planning rules that restrict shops and offices being converted into residential developments, in a bid to ease Britain’s housing shortage.
“If implemented, the impact on the City of London will be disastrous,” said Peter Wynne Rees, a planning officer at the Corporation of London, which runs the City of London district of the capital, an area with few residential properties……………………………………….Full Article: Source