Baroness Thornhill writes in Politics Home: ‘My concerns are based on the proven negative impacts of the government’s current policy, in place since 2013, which allows offices to be converted to housing units (I hesitate to call them homes). This has led to the creation of poor-quality homes, as well as the loss of important employment space, while driving a coach and horses through local plans and leaving the public mystified as to who can do what where and when. Our council’s ability to scrutinise outcomes of these conversions was at best limited, at worst non-existent’.