More and more shops, pubs, and empty retail units seem to be being converted into flats and homes across Northampton.
This could be due to the effects of the Covid crisis, which has hit the High Street hard.
It could also be down to West Northamptonshire Council' s need to provide more housing within the town.
Northampton Partnership Homes, for example, unveiled a new strategy in June 2020 outlining its ‘aspiration’ to build 3,000 new homes in the town over the next decade.
West Northamptonshire Council also has its own plans of delivering 18,000 homes and the creation of 28,500 jobs this decade.
Over the next few years we should be seeing the completion of these homes.
So this newspaper has rounded up a list of locations where plans have been submitted or approved to convert units into housing.
It could also be down to West Northamptonshire Council' s need to provide more housing within the town.