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Councils have warned that office blocks currently empty due to the Covid-19 pandemic are at risk of being converted into 'potentially substandard' housing as a result of permitted development rights (PDR).

Housing and communities secretary Robert Jenrick has set out a number of reforms to the right-to-buy policy, including extending the time local authorities in England have to spend right-to-buy receipts from three years to five years.

The government’s proposed new housing algorithm will lead to more homes being built in London and the South East and fewer in the North, according to the Local Government Association (LGA). 

Town halls should be given the powers to lead the response to coronavirus crisis and the rebuilding of the nation’s economy, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer told a virtual audience at the Local Government Association’s Annual Conference.