Business & Enterprise

A plan to convert part of a floor in a Deptford office into flats has been dismissed over concerns about loss of employment space and living conditions for future residents.

Plans to convert a vacant listed shop unit in Christchurch into a coffee shop would improve the vitality of the town’s high street, an inspector has decided, overruling local policy to grant permission....

An inspector has approved 217 flats and 16,000 square metres of office space on brownfield land in Windsor, ruling that the scheme’s benefits outweighed its design problems.