Office figures: CBRE via Le Journal des Entreprises (13 May 2026): 389,300 m² of office space available in the Lille metropolitan area, vacancy 8.2%; take-up over 163,000 m² in 2025 (+7%) but 22,600 m² in Q1 2026 (−51% on a year). The reference date of the supply figure is not stated. Map built 2026-10-09.
Every building a record says stands empty, one point per building: filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is, and open one to see who says so. “Opportunities” switches to the co-op lens: public land, conversion potential and projects already under way, every source as its own layer.
There is no open list of empty buildings or homes: the national vacant-homes file (LOVAC) is restricted to public authorities, and La Fabrique des quartiers' list of buildings in its vacant-housing concession is not published.
0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed
Check any building in Lille: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?
Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.
Where offices are already becoming homes: 31 of the 68 conversion permits since 2013 are here.
Risk: The most expensive part of the city; office owners convert themselves or sell to developers.
Former industrial east Lille: the most brownfields in the city after Lomme, and three of the Métropole's abandonment cases (rue de Lannoy, rue Malsence, rue Faidherbe).
Risk: Big sites such as the former Fives-Cail works already have public developers; small abandoned houses take years of procedure.
The most brownfield sites in the city and a PLU 'waiting perimeter' on the former Winckelmans site, held until a global project is agreed.
Risk: Mostly industrial land along the canal, not empty housing; projects are long-term.
Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.
Since 2020 the Métropole's development company buys vacant, degraded or blocked homes — by agreement, pre-emption, or expropriation after an abandonment declaration — and has them rehabilitated, often as social rented homes. A co-op can ask to take on and renovate buildings from this pipeline.
The mayor records a building as manifestly abandoned (no regular occupant, no upkeep); if the owner does nothing within three months, the Métropole can expropriate it for a public-interest project. The decisions name the address — a list of buildings that are empty by official finding.
The PLU reserves 21 plots in Lille, Lomme and Hellemmes for housing programmes (often 100% homes, some with a social share) and sets social-mix and home-size rules on others; an owner who wants to sell can ask the beneficiary to buy. A co-op can target these plots with the Métropole or the City.
Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.
170 rue Faidherbe, recorded as manifestly abandoned in August 2024, goes to the Hauts-de-France land agency for rehabilitation.
The State sells its empty office complex on rue Gustave-Delory to Duval for €6.07m; about 670 homes and student rooms by 2030.
22,600 m² let in Q1 2026 (−51%); 389,300 m² available.
Cerema's LOVAC file (tax records) counts 14,410 private homes vacant on 1 January 2025, 3,569 of them for two years or more, against 117,088 private homes. The 2026 edition changed method, so it runs above earlier years; the address-level file goes only to local authorities.
51 rue de Lannoy and 49 rue Malsence: the Métropole asks for public-utility declarations.
18 sources connected, 1 waiting for access. We only use data we may lawfully reuse; where a publisher blocks automated access we do not work around it — a person downloads it, or we ask for permission.
| Source | Access | Records | Status | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | 83 | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors) |
| Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap) OpenStreetMap contributors | Open API | scoring | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors) |
| Building heights: GlobalBuildingAtlas (TU Munich) Zhu, X. X., Chen, S., Zhang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. (2025), Technical University of Munich GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models. Earth System Science Data 17(12), 6647–6668, doi:10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025. Read from the Parquet copy on Source Cooperative. Satellite-derived heights (typically 1.5–3 m error in Europe), turned into storeys with storey heights fitted on Berlin; used only where no register or official 3D model sizes the building. | Open download | 1 buildings sized | Live 2026-10-09 | CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL |
| Storeys and heights: BD TOPO buildings (IGN) Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN) Source : IGN – BD TOPO®. Recorded storeys (nombre_d_etages) where given, else the eaves height (lowest roof above lowest ground). | Open API | 76 buildings sized | Live 2026-10-09 | Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab) |
| Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden) European Environment Agency | Open API | scoring | Live 2026-10-09 | EEA standard re-use policy (attribution) |
| Leerstandsmelder.de — public reports of empty buildings Leerstandsmelder (Gängeviertel e.V., Hamburg) Shown while we ask Leerstandsmelder for permission. Reports since 2016 only, with the address, the month reported and a link to each entry; not checked by EHC. Each point says when a report has since been marked demolished, lived in, in interim use or rebuilt on Leerstandsmelder, and the owner type the reporter gave (private owners are never named). | Asking for permission | 0 | Pending 2026-10-09 | Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission |
| Open-ended property funds: buildings they report partly empty Open-ended real-estate funds (each point names its fund and report) German and Austrian open-ended public property funds must list every property with its vacancy (or letting) rate in their annual and half-year reports. scripts/reuse/import-fund-reports.ts reads those lists; properties at 10 % vacancy or more are shown, those at 25 % or more count as evidence. | Open download | 0 | Live 2026-10-09 | Published fund report (KAGB / KARBV property list), cited per point |
| Co-working spaces, department stores, banks, hotels and cinemas listed as permanently closed Overture Maps Foundation (closure data: BrightQuery company records) Places with operating_status "permanently_closed" in the monthly Overture release, read by scripts/reuse/import-overture-closures.ts and matched to the building they sit in. A closed business is usually one unit; names are shown only for companies, never for sole traders. | Open download | 0 | Live 2026-10-09 | CDLA Permissive 2.0 (Overture Maps Foundation) |
| Land without current use and stalled construction, mapped from satellite imagery (Copernicus Urban Atlas 2006–2018) European Environment Agency — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service Urban Atlas class 13400 (brownfields, demolition sites and gaps in the built-up area, 0.25 ha and up) compared across the 2006, 2012 and 2018 editions, so each plot says how long it has stood unused; plus construction sites (13300) already under way in 2012, and 2012 construction sites left unused by 2018. Read from the EEA's open ArcGIS services, the same way in every radar city. The 2021 edition (Copernicus Data Space) drops plots built on since 2018 where scripts/reuse/import-urban-atlas-2021.ts has been run. Points are context, never evidence of vacancy. | Open API | 29 | Live 2026-10-09 | Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA) |
| Stalled construction and buildings held by insolvent developers EHC research (dated press and court sources per point) Signa, Adler/Consus and other developer insolvencies since 2022 and stalled sites, each with its latest dated status (src/scripts/data/reuse/stalled-projects.json; news leads from scripts/reuse/mine-news.ts are reviewed before they join). | EHC research | 0 | Live 2026-10-09 | Cited publisher per point |
| Church buildings the dioceses and regional churches plan to give up Catholic dioceses and Protestant regional churches (their building plans), via EHC research Buildings a church body’s published building plan or recent reporting names as to be given up, without church funding, for sale or lease, or profaned (src/scripts/data/reuse/church-plans.json and brussels-churches.json). | EHC research | 0 | Live 2026-10-09 | Cited publisher per point |
| Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source) European Housing Coop research | EHC research | 4 | Live 2026-10-09 | Facts cited to their publishers |
| Listed buildings: Mérimée (monuments historiques) Ministère de la Culture (Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine) Buildings classés or inscrits as monuments historiques, wholly or in part (the part is named). A monument counts when its point lies in the record’s BD TOPO outline or on its façade (within 3 m). | Open download | scoring | Live 2026-10-09 | Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab) |
| Year built: IGN BD TOPO buildings Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN) The date a building appeared (date_d_apparition, from the land tax files) of the BD TOPO building a record sits in. | Open API | scoring | Live 2026-10-09 | Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab) |
| Year built and listing: OpenStreetMap building tags OpenStreetMap contributors start_date / construction_date and heritage / listed_status of the OpenStreetMap outline a record is matched to, where no register answers. Read with the outline match, not a separate query. | Open API | scoring | Live 2026-10-09 | ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors) |
| Plots the PLU reserves for homes, social mix or a future project Métropole Européenne de Lille — PLU3, emplacements réservés (data.lillemetropole.fr) | Open API | 36 | Live 2026-10-09 | Licence Ouverte 2.0 (MEL open data) |
| Permits turning offices, shops and warehouses into homes (Sitadel, 2013–2026) SDES (Ministry for Ecological Transition) — Sitadel, list of planning permits creating homes | Open download | 68 | Live 2026-10-09 | Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0 |
| Brownfields in the national inventory (Cartofriches) Cerema — Cartofriches (sites référencés, edition 7 October 2026) | Open download | 64 | Live 2026-10-09 | Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0 |
| Service buildings of six storeys or more with no homes (IGN BD TOPO) IGN – BD TOPO, via the Géoplateforme | Open API | 82 | Live 2026-10-09 | Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0 |
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