Rishi Sunak has promised to reduce the number of boarded-up shops on high streets by 2025 if he wins his Tory leadership bid, enabling local authorities to quickly seize and repurpose empty commercial ...

there’s a lot of rundown spaces, especially along Flinders St,” he said. “When you walk down the street and see buildings that have been empty for 15 years and look like no one has been in ...

New "untested" powers for councils to take over empty high street shops are set to come into effect next month but the sector remains unconvinced it will solve the problem. From next month High Street ...