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Social Rented Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the rate of office-to-residential asset conversions to accelerate the delivery of social housing.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
16 Oct 2025
Answer
21 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the rate of office-to-residential asset conversions to accelerate the delivery of social housing.

  2. 16 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    Under nationally set permitted development rights a wide range of commercial buildings such as offices and shops are able to change use to residential without the need for a planning application. The government continues to keep permitted development righ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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