Question follow-through · 41363
Business Premises: Change of Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to require full planning permission to convert commercial premises for residential use.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 7 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
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to require full planning permission to convert commercial premises for residential use.
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The government recognises that there has been criticism of some of the homes delivered under permitted development rights for change of use. We continue to keep permitted development rights under review.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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