This is an opportunity to reinvigorate the north where homes are plentiful and cheap. They may need upgrading and insulating but that will provide jobs in places where people need them. Let’s make sure there is a great broadband connection and fast trains into London for those odd occasions when an office worker does need to go to London.
Let’s take the empty office building and convert them to homes or demolish and rebuild homes so those that do need to live in cities can find somewhere affordable. This should reduce destruction of the greenbelt. Let’s rethink housing. Pretty much everyone will need a space that can work as a home office and we learned from the pandemic that a garden or green public space nearby is necessary for mental health . This is an opportunity to build houses that are zero carbon emitters. Some of the unused office block spaces could be returned to parkland. We could start to implement the ‘everything you need within in a 20 minute walk from your home’ idea. For those that want company while they work local offices where home workers can go for company and better facilities and a chance to get out of the house would offer a business opportunity
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