Abstract
This chapter reviews previous studies on office-to-residential change of use, considering what is already known from existing research on the topic, whilst clearly explaining the need for the new research published in this book. This previous work looks largely at the rate of use of the relaxed rights, and the implications in terms of numbers of housing units delivered and the office market. They do not look in detail at the type and quality of housing delivered or implications for local authorities and communities (in terms of lost revenue and externalities). They tend to be desk-based studies, lacking the richness which comes from detailed case study examination. The way our work extends these is explained.
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Similarly, our research defines implementation rates as the percentage of approvals implemented yet excluding duplicates (multiple planning applications for the same scheme).
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This is a conservative figure since it results from adding all S.106 in lieu payments for office-to-residential conversions in inner London boroughs May 2013–May 2015 (£33,734,494) and dividing it by ALL units approved and not just by the schemes with S.106 for affordable housing.
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Clifford, B., Ferm, J., Livingstone, N., Canelas, P. (2019). Understanding Office-to-Residential Permitted Development. In: Understanding the Impacts of Deregulation in Planning. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12672-8_4
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