Sentence examples for vacant premises from inspiring English sources

Whatever happens to that store, central Manchester does not look likely to join the list of places where the number of vacant premises is turning critical.

Just when you think Dublin has hit coffee-chain saturation, the green and white logo appears over the door of a vacant premises.

There was a nod (as expected) to the retail sector with caps on business rate rises, plus relief for smaller outfits and a new relief to encourage firms to make use of vacant premises.

Revolver Records, Clifton Triangle Today, it stands blank-faced and mildew green, looking out towards soap-windowed, similarly vacant premises and awaiting the replacement for its most recent inhabitant, the Taste of India curry house.

Francis Maude, minister for the Cabinet Office, said the government is "getting a better grip" over its property costs - despite today's new figures revealing that central government owns 552 vacant premises.

However, Simon Tivey of PriceWaterHouseCoopers, warned that measures to fill vacant premises could encourage "a merry go round of rate relief relocations", as businesses swap shops to get the tax discount.

Four in 10 of the council planning officers polled said the measures had reduced office space within their area and only 20% thought it had brought vacant office premises back into use.

That's one reason why 14% of shop premises are vacant.

In Stroud, for example, cash-strapped artists are using vacant shops and other premises as studios and galleries.

The proportion of empty shops in Britain is climbing – 10.1% of premises lie vacant, according to an August report from the British Retail Consortium and Springboard.

The Caterham Bourne, which is normally dry in summer, flows through a culvert on a vacant site next to his premises.