Embracing industrial: The call for more urban sheds, breweries and makerspaces

The regeneration playbook is to takeover industrial spaces in favour of housing and mixed-use development, displacing the garages, workshops and sheds and pushing them to the margins of the city. But an increase in industrial rents and a shortage of industrial spaces has led to a radical rethink, with councils seeking industrial intensification instead, funding the creation of multi-storey light industrial spaces. In this interview, Regeneration Officer Francis Moss from London Borough of Ealing and Holly Lewis, Co-founding Director of We Made That explain the radical shift taking place and why industrial uses are essential to local economies and communities, making the case for keeping, and increasing, the sheds on our doorstep Support our podcast and also get the magazine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.