Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 80039

Planning: Empty Property

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 September 2025 to Question 76124 on Planning: Empty Property, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of existing national planning

Answer

Matthew Pennycook

My Department has no plans to make such an assessment. The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987, as amended, groups common uses of land and buildings into classes. The uses within each class are, for planning purposes, considered to be broad...

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