Question follow-through · 56523
Public Houses: Change of Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to review planning regulations on the conversion of public houses to other uses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to review planning regulations on the conversion of public houses to other uses.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2025
Answer published
Planning permission is always required for the material change of use of a public house to another use, and the government has no plans to change this.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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