[UPDATE: For the subsequent legislation relating to this consultation, please view this post.]
The government has published the following response to the consultation titled "High street rental auctions" (which ran for 12 weeks from 31/03/2023 until 23/06/2023):
Response document:
- May 2024: High street rental auctions consultation - government response (link) (pdf print version of HTML webpage).
The parts of the above response document relating to the GPDO are summarised below.
Introduction to the proposed system of "letting by local authorities of vacant high-street premises":
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GPDO - PART 4 - NEW PD RIGHTS for the temporary use of a premises with a lease under the "high-street rental auction" scheme as a "suitable high-street use" for "the term of the individual lease granted following the auction" (i.e. a period of between 1 year and 5 years):
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GPDO - PART 3 - NEW PD RIGHTS for a change of use of a premises with a lease under the "high-street rental auction" scheme to make permanent the "suitable high-street use":
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Other sources of information: