{"id":20,"date":"2026-10-09T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/empty-offices-could-become-flats\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:45:00","slug":"empty-offices-could-become-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/empty-offices-could-become-flats\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty offices in the centre could become 900 flats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the study found<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The engineers looked at 61 office buildings that have stood partly or completely empty for more than two years. In 17 of them, floor depth, window spacing and stairwells would allow flats without major structural work. Together that adds up to roughly 900 homes, most of them with one or two rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who would pay<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the buildings belong to pension funds and insurers. The city cannot order a conversion, but it can speed up permits and waive the parking requirement, which the study names as the biggest cost driver after the facades.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tenants\u2019 association welcomes the study but asks for a share of rent-controlled flats in every converted building. The owners\u2019 association says that would make most conversions unprofitable.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What happens next<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The planning committee will discuss the study in November. Two owners have already asked the city for a meeting about their buildings on Hafenstra\u00dfe.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study for the planning department finds that a quarter of the empty office space in the city centre could be turned into homes, at around two thirds of the cost of new building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city"],"leitvia_pattern_status":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}