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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Lynch

How reviving old buildings and churches could help UK solve housing crisis

The Government could meet nearly half of its target to build 1.5 million homes by bringing old buildings back into use, a cross-party group of MPs has said.

Using heritage buildings to meet Britain’s housing need is “no longer a niche or peripheral opportunity”, the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee said, “but a major and under-recognised means of addressing the country’s acute housing shortage”.

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