The government recently introduced a change to planning laws so that the conversion of office B1 use to residential C3 no longer requires planning permission. As said by Christina Weguelin, one of the acquisition surveyors at Morgan Pryce, “Since the floodgates have opened to lessen planning laws to allow the conversion of office use to residential use, there have been major redevelopments across all of central London to bring back the once lived in mansions of areas such as Mayfair, Soho and Fitzrovia especially.”