In amongst so much bad and depressing news, it’s a pleasure to read a good story about an imaginative developer and architect making imaginative conversions of disused buildings for local community use, financed not by local authorities, but investors:-

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/12/car-park-to-cafe-bar-how-the-really-local-group-is-renewing-the-uks-derelict-spaces?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other