The post-pandemic new-normal is driving change in our towns and cities. Business districts and office developers must now compete not only with each other but with that new auto-reply signifier - WFH (Working from Home).

Shiny new office buildings are going up to tempt tenants, leaving an increasing legacy of apparently obsolescent but often very fine 19^th & 20^th century buildings empty. Retail continues to decline; high streets have escalating vacancy rates, while stories of redundant department stores fill the pages of both national and trade press.