Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 78239

Hotels: Asylum

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Sir James Cleverly

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to amend the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 to require planning permission for the use of hotels as

Answer

Matthew Pennycook

Whether or not use of a hotel or a house in multiple occupation to accommodate asylum seekers would constitute a material change of use requiring planning permission is a matter of fact and degree and will be for the local planning authority to determine ...

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