Can You Really Convert A Pub? - UK Property Development

So you want to convert a pub? Watch this first!
Ritchie Clapson CEngMIStructE talks about UK planning rules, changes to permitted to development rights, and what this means for the conversion of pubs.

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About Ritchie Clapson:
Ritchie has been involved in property development for nearly 40 years, and as co-founder of propertyCEO, he coaches both novice and experienced property developers how to create substantial returns from small-to-medium scale development.
A qualified structural engineer by profession, he’s not only worked on hundreds of new-build, commercial and industrial conversion projects, he’s also trained and mentored countless developers and property professionals during his long career in the industry
A business coach and strategist, he built up one of the country’s leading structural engineering firms and was appointed by the government as peer review engineer for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium

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[saadzkhn]

what if you are interested in converting and living in the pub yourself ie pub to house

[dannymurphy]

I don't really agree with your analysis Ritchie because pubs are not inherently difficult, I think what you should be saying is you need to be a lot more capitalized to undertake such a project. Like any deal if you buy right and are proplerly funded it will work. Once it has been established the business is not viable it is simply a case of coming up with the most appropriate solution be it houses, HMO, shop and uppers etc etc.

I am not really convinced by converting industrial buildings right now because if we are talking studios then there is the question that the young people who would occupy them might not be able to afford it when they are finished, I remember studios got massacred in the last two housing recessions.

There is also the concern about over supply, such as happened with flats in Leeds in 2007, you couldn't give them away at one time. Sorry to be a neghead but studios are higher risk if there is a downturn in my opinion.