Peter McVerry Trust calls on minister to extend vacant shop conversion rules

Rules passed in 2018 allow business premises' to be used as a home if it has been empty for two years or more. Picture: Larry Cummins

The Peter McVerry Trust will have to stop converting vacant shops and offices into homes unless a planning permission waiver is extended past the end of the year.

Rules passed in 2018 allow business premises' to be used as a home if it has been empty for two years or more.