In recent weeks, local authorities have exempted multiple commercial operators from the need for planning permission to turn large office blocks into emergency accommodation, analysis of planning files shows. Last month, The Currency highlighted how around a dozen businesses had submitted cases to councils seeking confirmation if they are exempt from the need to get planning permission to change the use of commercial and industrial buildings to emergency accommodation.  Exemptions in planning law were brought in to allow for the change to the use of such premises for emergency accommodation and to make internal building changes without first obtaining planning…

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