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Question follow-through · 99494

Housing: Building Alterations

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the (a) planning application success rate and (b) the number of planning appeals being considered by the Planning Inspectorate relating to mansard

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
12 Dec 2025
Target answer date
16 Dec 2025
Answer
7 Jan 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the (a) planning application success rate and (b) the number of planning appeals being considered by the Planning Inspectorate relating to mansard

  2. 16 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    My Department does not collect data on planning applications or planning appeals relating specifically to mansard roof extensions.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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