local authorities to get control over empty high street premises

Compulsory powers to take control of empty high street premises

The Conservative Government's consultation on HSRAs described the prolonged vacancy of shops and buildings as a “blight on our high streets”, ...

The criteria for that will be that the street or area is important to the local economy because of the concentration of what are defined in the ...

Levelling-up: Local authorities granted powers to let empty high ...

Levelling-up: Local authorities granted powers to let empty high-street premises · the property is in an area designated by the local authority as a high street ...

Local councils to receive new powers in December to force ...

Local authorities will receive new powers in December that allow them to auction long-term empty high street properties. Originally ...

Impact of new council powers to let empty high street premises

The good news is that its impact is not immediate. Further regulations are required to bring into effect the new power given to local authorities to force ...

Q&A on UK High Street Rental Auctions | Insights

The local authority must also consider whether occupation of the premises for a suitable high street use would be “beneficial to the local ...

Councils in England to get new powers to fill empty shops and boost ...

New powers will be introduced in England this summer allowing councils to take control of empty shops and rent them out to small businesses and community ...

New powers for local authorities to rent out vacant high street premises

Part of the recent Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (the Act) empowers Councils to hold rental auctions and then let out vacant town ...

Local authority powers and high street rental auctions | DWF Group

Local authorities will have the power to oblige landlords to rent out persistently vacant commercial properties to new tenants.

Local councils to be given power to revitalise high streets by taking ...

Shops can stand empty for years, blighting the high street and wasting opportunities for new jobs. Councils are expected to be given greater powers to take ...

High streets to be revitalised with new legal powers - GOV.UK

Councils will be handed new powers next month to breathe new life back into high streets and transform long-term empty shops, the government ...

New high street rental auctions regime to come into effect this ...

Local authorities will from this summer gain a power to require landlords to rent out persistently vacant shops and other commercial ...

Empty Shops and Negligent or Absent Landlords

Local authorities have a wide range of powers which can be used to beneficially intervene in town centre management, albeit, there is no specific duty on them ...

Vicky Green on LinkedIn: Local authority powers and high street ...

It seems our article made it to Local Government Lawyer!!! I have been following the proposals regarding high street rental auctions since I presented a ...

Taking back the high street - Power to Change

Each year, more shuttered buildings sit empty on our high streets. They ... communities take control of the assets that matter to them. Introduce a 75 ...

New levelling up powers to fill empty shops across England - GOV.UK

New powers will come into effect this summer to help communities take back control of their high streets and revive empty shops to ...

Dealing with empty shops – a good practice guide for councils

Optimistically, as councils take a key role in steering their high streets and town centres towards more mixed use futures that are less retail- ...

Minister confirms plan to make landlords fill empty shops

The new rules will enable councils to take control of empty properties and rent them out to local businesses in a bid to increase footfall and ...

High Street Rental Auctions: the Government's response

In summary, the proposals give local authorities the power to auction the rental rights of commercial high street property that has been vacant ...

High street auctions set to fill empty properties | Propertymark

The UK Government has announced that new powers to enable local authorities in England to regenerate high streets and fill empty shops will ...