Question follow-through · 53698
Empty Property: Business Premises
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing measures to support the redevelopment of vacant commercial properties into affordable housing
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 28 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing measures to support the redevelopment of vacant commercial properties into affordable housing
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that substantial weight should be given to the value of using suitable brownfield land within settlements, including bringing back into residential use empty homes and the development of under-utilised la...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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