A re-focusing of Homes England towards funding conversion of existing buildings is needed to achieve government’s levelling up aim, a new report has suggested.

The report, titled No Place Left Behind, published by the Create Streets Foundation’s Commission on Prosperity and Community Placemaking, and written by former Number 10 policy advisor Toby Lloyd, also suggests policies to enable a mass transfer of empty shops and buildings to communities. In total, it makes dozens of suggestions of how the government can achieve its key aim of “levelling up” the United Kingdom (see box).