Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the proposal in the Government's Technical Consultation on Planning to grant permitted development rights to allow change of use from some sui generis uses to residential without the need for planning permission, what amount he has made of the potential effect of that proposal on affordable housing numbers.
We are currently considering responses to the consultation on this matter and will publish the Government response in due course.