Clegg gains support for plans to bring empty buildings back to life

THE deputy prime minister is speeding up plans to bring empty buildings in the North back to life.

Just two months after his Northern Futures initiative highlighted the need to tackle the chronic problem of unused sites sitting empty across the region, Nick Clegg and local charities have formed a working group with Legal & General, The Co-operative Group, Network Rail, Capital and Centric, Carillion and others.

Making empty buildings available to charities, community groups, artists and entrepreneurs will help give a ... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...

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