Question follow-through · 22111
Second Homes: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will amend planning regulations to facilitate converting holiday lodges into permanent primary homes.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will amend planning regulations to facilitate converting holiday lodges into permanent primary homes.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
It is for local planning authorities to consider whether holiday lodges would be suitable to become permanent primary homes. Where a holiday lodge is judged to be unsuitable for use as a permanent home, for example due to its size, location or access to a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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